Did 40mins of walking today and mapped a pocket of bushland in Kahiba that needed doing (view on osmarender layer). The Great North Walk runs through here which means that it's now mapped contiguously from here to Glenrock. Ok, so that's not very far but it's being done! I'm not sure exactly where it goes through Glenrock. The Southern section of the walk is mapped, and eventually ends up at a lookout (marked) but after that I'm at a loss. I know it comes out at Burwood Beach, so I guess it's time to backtrack from there. It then officially goes up the beach, which may be difficult to map as there's no "path" there.

The rest of the walk into Newcastle CBD is along residential streets. Maybe it'd be worth making a route relation that includes the bush tracks and residential streets?

Heading West of the map location the Great North Walk continues through more streets, crosses the Pacific Highway, then dives into the bush again somewhere in Charlestown. Somehow it crosses the Newcastle Inner City Bypass (presumably by tunnel?) and heads down a thin strip of bushland between the bypass and Charlestown (Hillsborough?) Golf Course. All this is next on the list to map, once my legs have recovered from a couple of long mapping rides in Glenrock.

The tracks in Glenrock State Conservation Area are *almost* comprehensively mapped. The only section left to do is a small area in the North East corner of the park. Unfortunately I live South of the park, so I don't head that way very often. It's about a 20-30km round trip to do mapping in that area.

I still haven't bothered doing much street name collection in Newcastle. It's, well, boring :p. Mountain bike riding is just so much more interesting! That, and I don't have a P&S camera for recording them yet.

One last thing: Just East of the diary entry location the Great North Walk runs along side Flaggy Creek. The walking track data is from a GPS log but the creek's path was guessed from Yahoo imagery so a survey is needed to record exactly where the creek crossings are.