well I've done a third of the buildings in my town! Pop 15,000 and urgently needed doing!

More like a quarter! Next will be house numbers!

I live in Holzkirchen, and would like to get to know people in this region Miesbach-Dietramszell-Sauerlach who have an interest in OSM

Ich wohne in Holzkirchen, und möchte gern Leute in dieser region kennenlernen, die eine Interesse in OSM haben.

Hi I am a relative beginner to OSM and have captured some GPXs into the system, including even some traces from a recent trip to Albania.

My problem is I'd like to do some capturing without my GPS. Owing to a small accident in Croatia my Nokia GPS phone broke and I am unable to do conventional OSMing at the moment.

Can I do things like street name checks in OSM without my GPS?

Just uploaded four Albania traces made 15 June with our car circumnavigating Lake Skadar. Jeez the roads were rough!

Surprised to see how much of Albania has been mapped already in OSM.

Although I became interested (that would be an understatement) in OSM before Christmas, today was the first chance to get out there and map my local streets. I felt a bit odd turning round down cul de sacs, but thankfully everyone else was at work. (I get a free morning as a stay at home Dad) Today the snow is almost gone from our town, so the streets are clear.

I have mapped Nordic ski trails in the snow over Christmas so most of my surveying has up to now been somewhat ephemeral mapping, on laid tracks which of course melt in spring!

On! On!

Hi there,

I've been a Rip van Winkle the last few years in GIS, but will soon be buying a GPS enabled mobile phone so will hit the ground running mapping routes in the Bavarian Alps where I wander every weekend with my family.

I'm a very old fart in GIS terms, got my MSc in GIS in 1990 from Leicester under the tutelage of Dave Maguire now at ESRI. I've taken GIS around the world, to Saudi Arabia where I lived five years, on to Mongolia where I met my GIS practising wife.

The last few years I have been buried in childcare duties as a stay at home Dad, but I am little freer now I have more time, they are older. I now live in Germany as a Brit expat. Look forward to getting back into this subject.

I'm a fluent German speaker, but for the Germans here - leave my grammar alone - its probably crap!