As I was busy with work in my office, as well as with the work on my websites 60 Years of Kimba.com and Booking Croatia.com, not to mention being busy around my 2 tiny tots at my home, I didn’t contribute much since my last summary:

• I continued working on Sierra Leone, I’ve added a few roads in the Western Area Rural Area and in the Tonkolili District; in the meantime Ebola has spread greatly across the country from the neighboring Guinea, and several HOT tasks have been made, after which the majority of the places I mapped are better mapped
• after hearing on the news about Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda, I took part in several HOT tasks: 343, 344, 348 and 364, and in 30 changesets I’ve added/changed around 12510 nodes; please visit my HOT Tasking Manager profile and use the “overpass-turbo” feature to see what exact nodes and areas I added
• because it is well covered by Bing, I started mapping Gornja Kovačica, the place where my love spent her childhood; I must continue work there
• 9 months ago I started experimenting with the 3D rendering and 3D-micromapping of my city district by adding building levels, roof shapes and roof colors, and I’m pretty satisfied with the results; I did lot of work, but there is also still lot of work to be done; I’ve used several online websites to view it: OpenScienceMap, OSM Buildings and F4 Map
• after I’ve heard that Bing has finally covered Lijevo Sredičko the place where my love’s parents have a vacation house, I’ve started mapping there, surprised by the fact that somebody else has already mapped there by adding the landuse areas

In the past 4 years in total I’ve added around 292000 nodes, around 29500 ways and 177 relations.

Here’s what I did after contributing to OpenStreetMap for 3 years (around 268000 nodes, around 26100 ways and 168 relations), continuing after the last summary:

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I’ve finally managed to add the remaining bicycle routes on the island Hvar, you can check it out on opencyclemap.org and openptmap.org.

I’ve listed them on the OSM WiKi page for bicycle routes in Croatia as well (under Bicycle routes and Mountain bike routes).

For those who will be visiting my hometown in the near or distant future, I’ve added relations showing two tour routes, one of Split Vision City Tour that consists of 2 tour buses, and the other of a little tourist train.

I’ve also added several new bicycle routes on the island Hvar, please check out openptmap.org or opencyclemap.org.

Recently I discovered the OpenMapSurfer site and its “OSM Roads” base layer, which shows OSM data in a bit different way, and after I took the look of the old and historical center of my town with it, I thought that this will be interesting for any foreign visitor(s) of my city. I added some of the POIs there, but the streets, buildings, and some of the POIs were made by my fellow mapper idelac.

After working on the transport lines on the Hvar island, I’ve decided to add two bicycle routes on that island that I know of, and I’ve managed to display both of them on the same map with help of openptmap.org (base layer: Cycle Map). I like the way how it showed up. :-)

After contributing to OpenStreetMap for almost 1,5 years (around 105000 nodes, around 10300 ways and 108 relations) I simply wanted to summarize and to put on paper what I’ve been doing so far on OSM:

• I drew my city suburb and the suburb Lučac-Manuš as best as possible thanks to both Bing and (now ex) Yahoo aerial imaginary
• I’ve worked on keepright and OSM Inspector errors in my town and its surroundings, before my fellow OSM mappers from my town idelac and ivo_st remapped and fully OSM-ized it
• based on Bing, I’ve started drawing Dravlje, the suburb of the city of Ljubljana where we have a flat, but there is still lots of work to be done yet
• I’ve been correcting keepright and OSM Inspector errors, as well as removing duplicate nodes (this feature doesn’t seem to be working right now), in my country, in Slovenia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as some in Namibia and South Africa (two beautiful countries that I’ve been to)
• I drew Novi Jelkovec, the part of Sesvete (a suburb of the city of Zagreb), and added some POIs, both from GPS tracks and from Bing (in the meantime somebody else has added more content to it)
• using my own knowledge, GPS tracks and Bing, I’ve done my best in bringing the island of Hvar, my ancestors’ birthplace, to OSM (but there is still lots of work to do there)
• in collaboration with other Croatian mappers I’ve taken part in the project of remapping my country and bringing it to ODBL, which was quickly completed (in mere 1 month) and Croatia became the first ODBL country in the world :) (except for one node, but that one isn’t significant, we have already made another similar); this was also noticed and mentioned by fellow mappers from Germany
• after a suggestion from my fellow mapper Janjko I’ve worked on the map of bus routes in my part of town; this has inspired me to create map of the bus routes of the island of Hvar, which is almost done and which you can view here

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