I'm finally getting around to updating OSM with all the minutia I collected on my trip up north.

I've already updated with the majority of the fleshy edits I took; I've updated Gracemere itself with all of the new estates and a number of roads and the like outside of the Yahoo coverage area. I'm finding Landsat is priceless for getting the gist of roads I didn't bother to trace, and even pricelesser for tracing in the little creeks.

That's right, the pet project on this trip was collecting creek names. I must have taken the name and location of about a hundred different creeks and rivers that intersect the highways and roads on my travels, and now I'm landsat-tracing the ones I can make out. I think it really adds to the map.

I'm also adding in other incidental details. I took a number of fuel stations and phone boxes along the way. It's quite painful editing such a large area in JOSM because not only does it slow down some, but I also have to download each area I want to edit manually.

One of the interesting things I came across in my travels was this shared foot/bikeway which really puts the discussion on the distinction between footway/cycleway/path/track on the OSM-AU mailing list into perspective for me. We're spoiled with our cycle network in Brisbane, even though it's still completely impractical to commute on.

I've linked to Gracemere, which is so almost complete it's painful to see the few little areas I missed on the Geofabrik comparison tool. I'm now going for a second pass through all my collected data to see if there's any more details which I missed the first time around.