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SOTM was great

Posted by mabapla on 16 July 2009 in English.

Hi everybody.

Just got back from Amsterdam where I spent 2.5 ;-) more days after SOTM to get around the city a little bit. But there's still a lot more to see, naturally. For example, I virtually wasn't East of the CCC where SOTM was held, spending all the time in the city center.

I won't mention the lightning talk I held about GpsMid, or else you'll all go and watch the video which is probably quite embarassing. Oh wait, now I did tell you. D'oh! ;-)

I created almost 300 waypoints while I was there. I somewhat specialized on hotels as I didn't like that most of the hotels couldn't be found on OSM when I was booking my hotel so I decided to improve that. But I also mapped a lot of restaurants, pubs and other stuff.

I even found a small alley that was still unmapped, the Slijkstraat. But it was already uploaded by a Dutch mapper yesterday.

Serious question, how do you map these urinals in the streets which only men can use as there is no toilet seat or anything?

It will probably take me some time until I get round to upload the POIs. Today there's my company's summer party and on Saturday there's the first Esslingen mapping party (osm.wiki/Esslingen_am_Neckar/Treffen). Plus I still have quite a few old tracks to catch up with.

Location: Burgwallen-Oude Zijde, Centrum, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Comment from seav on 18 July 2009 at 08:33

They have male-only urinals on the street there? I thought we only had those here in my city. :-P

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