Dear diary,

I'm contributing since february 2008, but never posted here. So let's give it a try.

My current town in France (Aix-En-Provence) is in progress, thanks to the work of a few OSMers. All "bicycle_rental" amenities have been taggued yet. Okay, there were just 16 (compared to the thousands in Paris) ... But I'm ready for an another goal now. I tried via the yahoo imagery to draw some buildings (including "private" / personal buildings) in the area but I don't know if it is a good idea or not. They all appear in pink on the map, and for sure this is not the priority. Perhaps should I focus on the streets (namings, oneways, ...) before trying to have a surcharged map with full of (useless ?) things.

While reading some stuffs on the net this evenning, I just fall on this : http://www.procedural.com/cityengine/features.html ; it looks like an interesting project - proprietary, but interesting anyway :-P. Relying on the webpage (and if I understand correctly), it can use OSM datas in order to make 3D views of cities (a colleague from my french school will work on her final internship on this software). But what about the licensing of the work resulting in the use of this application ? I hope to see a lot of 3D-rendered towns under creative commons. Wait and see ...

Sorry for my bad english, and see you later !