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The place where I used to live

Posted by regaladys on 21 November 2011 in English. Last updated on 20 December 2011.

"...sometimes you close your eyes and you see the place where you used to live, when you were young..." -The Killers

Three months ago I created an OSM account to add the location of our office. Tonight, I returned to add my elementary and secondary schools (unfortunately without Bing images available to some parts of Jaro, Iloilo City). I was then tempted to add more familiar places - nearby schools, the park and stadium where I used to go swimming and my dad's hometown in the next city. I just kept adding places from my childhood.

A little problem in tagging entries for fish ponds and salt ponds is that OSM does not have fish farms under "agriculture" nor does the "water" category have anything close to a fish pond but its "lake" option.

I also noticed that the river beside my cousin's house is weirdly named Caluntuagan River. I already changed it to it's right name, Calumangan River.

I did not expect that this would get addicting. I hope to visit home again so I can convince my brother, our family's resident map geek, to be an OSM contributor.