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About eight months ago I started mapping my hometown, and earlier today I reached a major milestone of having gone over everywhere boxed in by the Sabine River Diversion Canal and the CPKC railroad. I’ve gotten a lot more detailed and generally more accurate with mapping, so rather than moving on I’m going to do a (hopefully much quicker) second pass, particularly for where I did not yet start using street-level imagery to verify road names, building/business names, and other micromapping targets I like to do (an embarrassing number of power poles and street lamps). I expect to have every road de-tigered and every visibly signed POI named sometime next year. From that point on I think I’ll focus on de-tigering the rest of the road network in the parish, then maybe start mapping other nearby towns.

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Comment from 0235 on 11 November 2025 at 16:39

Incredible achievement. I started on my town about 5 years ago, and have still only done about 1/3 of it!

Comment from JuanElDemografo on 11 November 2025 at 17:04

To be fair to you, it looks like you’ve been distracted by the side quest of drawing messages into your contribution heat map :p

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