Having not woken up with the expected hangover and not knowing what else to do, I fitted the bike rack onto the back of the car, and drove myself to the new area north of North Pine River where I knew there were a bunch of un-traced streets.

I'm going to digress early on in the piece to exclaim how ridiculous it is that there's no pedestrian or cycle transport over that river. It's a major thoroughfare, the exact boundary between two councils, and an absolute arse to traverse via public transport. Something needs to be done.

There, with that out of the way I can continue unfettered.

I pulled in to the new shopping centre along Dohles Rocks Road, and parked my car in the far corner. It was a Saturday, so the likelihood of the car park filling up and my being a nuisance was slim. I prepared my bits and pieces, adjusted my doo-dads, and donned my helmet before taking a quick calibratory lap around the car park. I was pleased to find not one but two cycleways along the main road so I was absolutely spoiled for choice.

The area was all very familiar to me, since I'd previously surveyed it all not six months ago. Due to a catastrophic GPS failure which lost all my data, I'd never gotten the chance to update it, and due to the complete lack of access to the area by bike I'd never bothered to go back.

It was good the second time around though, because I got a lot more detail than I did in the car. I actually spent a good third of the time tracing footpaths and walkways which I'd obviously never bother with on four wheels. I even discovered a recently opened retirement village which I dutifully cycled around to get street traces.

By the time I'd finished the “Northquarter” estate, I wasn't quite ready to head back. Instead I pottered around the shopping centre at the top of the hill before deciding I wasn't particularly hungry, and headed further out into the older but nonamed Castle Hill estate.

I only got a few names here, because I was more interested in the little network of footpaths that enclosed the lake. Engrossed in mapping, I didn't realise that the sun had gone down, and being in somewhat of a valley and under exceptional foliage cover made it excruciatingly dark and spiderific. I'm terrified of anything with more than four legs, so I usually would have headed back, but it was an equal distance both ways so I powered through and managed to finish what I started.

The result is a somewhat unspectacular but impressive-sounding 157 edited ways. Since this was the first significant thing I'd done for a while, I did up an animated gif showing the changes in Mapnik.