I’m working on mapping our Minneapolis neighborhoods. My approach is to map one neighborhood at a time. I initially started with random edits around my house, but have decided to intensely cover a a specific neighborhood until it is finished.

Here’s my definition of finished:

• confirm all roads and alleys
• add all sidewalks
• add all houses, apartments, garages, and buildings
• add addresses to all houses, apartments, buildings
• add businesses, churches and schools

Here’s my editing approach:

1. Add or adjust all buildings and label them as houses, apartments, garages, etc as best as I can tell
2. Print out a survey sheet
3. Walk the survey sheet and collect addresses, business church and school names and a take photos of signs with hours or other details
4. Add address numbers and other details to the entities

I’m finding that adjusting everything BEFORE taking the survey and entering details really speeds up my process. Changing from data entry to making building adjustments takes more time.

What do you think?