I've finished!

Well, I've finished the little bit I was focusing on, anyhow.

I've spent probably one hundred years working on the area (actually I only did about four trips out there over a period of about six months) and now it's finally done. I missed one street, but I can probably get my nephew to grab the name of it for me sometime.

I did get streets, cycle ways, foot paths, parks (and park names where applicable) and I estimated some stream/drainage routes. They're not super-accurate, but I figure the entire greenway turns into a river when there's any kind of heavy rain anyway so it doesn't matter that much.

I didn't get lot numbers, because — let's face it — at some point in the future we're going to inevitably acquire and import a database of street numbers from somewhere, so any half-arsed work in the interim probably isn't going to make that much difference. I'm a bit jaded, like that.

My next project is going to be mapping the new estates to the north of what I've already done. This is mostly getting street names, but there's a couple of parks and some more cycle track as well. I'm not sure it'll be as massive a project as the middle bit.

I also want to go for a walk around the sports field and greenway to the south of that area. There's tracks, walkways, and extra greenway snaking through the estate that I haven't been able to get off the satellite imagery. A lot of the current greenway is estimated as well, so it's probably not all that accurate anyway.

After that I want to start working east and update/fortify the maps out to the train line. There's quite a bit of new development that isn't on the satellite imagery (not that I can get it any more with the JOSM WMS+Ubuntu 9.04 bug I haven't been bothered fixing,) and I'm a bit of a perfectionist. It's a massive task.

So that's my little pocket of OpenStreetMap updated. It's taking it's sweet time to render, so there's a little patch of broken in the middle. I expect that'll clear up next time it's fully updated.