While at my "other home", i did some mapping of the surroundings. There were some major roads missing and no streets at all, so i mapped the places of my childhood. Lots of memories in here :)

Whoa!

I never thought GPS devices are SOOO inaccurate! The first walk was a bit of a failure, we decided with my Lady to go out for a little walk and map the forrest footways. The GPS tracklog jumps here and there, 15 meters not a measure. Luckily enough i had two devices recording simultaneously so i was able to reconstruct at least some of the data by averaging.

And i have to say, JOSM sucks a bit less than i first expected, it has some neat functions, but still needs some serious work. What a pity i don't do Java...

I wanted so badly to see my first submission in the live data that i followed the directions in the wiki for requesting a re-render for either map renderer, but with no luck. Neither would rerender anything, Mapnik even laughed at my face with one tile finally rerendered but still with old data contents. What a disappointment. There should be a power tower in the map!

Today after work, i'm planning the first mapping trip, i'll walk through Sidliste Dablice in Praha and fill in the street names. Maybe even some streets are missing, it looks somewhat strange, but i havent walked through there so thoroughly yet. We'll see. But definitely there is a powerline segment missing.

Bojasova seems to be mislabeled, there are two of them nearby. I'll check it out.

Also i'll probably try out JOSM, that might take a lot of time...

While updating Mobile Track Explorer i bumped into OSM in its source and thought i'd might check it out. The idea is great and also it's great to know that so many people have already contributed their time into such an effort.

It seems that there are some blank areas in the map near where i live, so i might give it a try in a near future. And my parents' hometown is completely unmapped, that will be a bigger challenge.

I'm really looking forward to this, i've always wanted to do something similar, but never had the guts ;)