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Mapping in Tynnered, Gothenburg, SE

Posted by drakfluga on 11 April 2009 in English.

Well, Easter is all but over. Family dinners and parties are all visited, gifts have been exchanged and much fun has been had. I came home earlier than I expected, so I actually had a bit of time to take an afternoon stroll through the Påvelund woods today and map out the jogging trail there. I've started to study mapping keys, which tags to use and so on, and I've probably made a ton of errors but I'm getting there. I feel like such a noob at this, but I'm sure it'll pass once I get the hang of the jargon and the correct tags.
I also took the liberty of mapping out some missing streets from memory with the assistance of the background tiles. I intend to take a ride around the neighbourhood in the coming days and map out all the streets I've free-handed, in order to make sure they're correctly drawn.
I noticed there used to be a few mappers in my general area and there's a page on the Wiki detailing the status of the Gothenburg area mapping effort, but I'm unsure whether any of them are still active. I can't imagine there'd be nobody else in the entire city who isn't into OSM, there's got to be at least one more person around here, right?

Oh, I also discovered the phenomenon of 'Geocaching' today. Well, I've heard of it before but never paid it much attention until now. It seems like good fun, and there are a lot of caches in the vicinity that I could start with. I might go off on a bit of treasure hunting tomorrow when I'm out mapping. :)

Location: Guldringen, Sydväst, Gothenburg, Göteborgs Stad, Västra Götaland County, 426 51, Sweden
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