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365 Days of OpenStreetMap: Day 2

Posted by Ted Percival on 25 June 2009 in English.

Skateboarded South-East Pleasant Grove and North Lindon, mainly adding missing street names but also a few POIs and some minor corrections to TIGER-sourced street names (eg. Avenue not Street). There was an unmapped cemetery, two churches, and a handful of pedestrian crossings. I also saw a little bit more of the Pleasant Grove / Lindon border, and updated the map accordingly.

This was my second skateboard-based mapping day, it works well for new developments with smooth asphalt (bitumen) or concrete footpaths. The biggest benefit I was expecting was having my hands free to hold on to my map or phone (GPS & camera). It certainly beats the pack-unpack ritual of mapping while riding a bike safely. On the other hand it limits the kind of areas that can be mapped, but I think I'll definitely keep a skateboard as part of my residential mapping kit.

Location: Lindon, Utah County, Utah, 84042, United States
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Discussion

Comment from LivingWithDragons on 25 June 2009 at 14:20

Harry Wood will be pleased about this, he's sometimes a rollerblade/kayaking mapper.

Comment from Harry Wood on 25 June 2009 at 14:27

Skateboard mapping? Radical!

Speeding round Wembley Stadium was the most fun I've had while roller mapping.

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