I figured this would take some effort. I was not wrong. 2hours riding/walking out and 2hours on the return crossing the Sidlaws to get the bridleways mapped and the roads aroudn Denoon/Eassie/Glen Ogilvy. My legs are feeling it and the map is showing it. The bike still needs cleaning, and there are still some to do on the next trip.

We finally launched the railway path leaflet today.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/News/Dundee/article/4430/leaflet-puts-dundee-to-newtyle-rail-link-on-the-map.html
and the leaflet itself is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/4815063190/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/4814439163/in/photostream/

I have just finished putting together a leaflet (ultimately published by the local council) for some local cycle/walking routes. We used OSM as the base map (with attribution as described in the FAQ) and it made life much easier.

Some shiny new tarmac at the hospital, with solar powered little lights along the edge. Would be good if they hadn't put cycle barriers in at the ends at the bottom of steep (25 degree) slopes. Totally useless as well.

There is a problem with the tagging. incline-steep is *not* a highway. It is a separate property of a highway.

I really must get the hang of all the various path options and work out how to use them properly. Mapping more paths in the Sidlaws. Teh Sidlaw Paths Network have catalogued many of the paths with names so I'll add those references in when I get the listing.

More of the Dundee-Newtyle railway path. Big bruise on my leg when I tried riding over a fallen tree that was a bit too much to handle.. Oops.

As we now have StreetView for the UK, I am now focussing on GPS tracking footpaths. Dragged the family out onto the hills today and was able to add a few more miles of footpath and the summit cairn for Balleduron Hill. A lot easier today as it was much drier than last weekend.

I have the opinion that it is better to have roads in the map than not in the map. My time and radius are limited so I have traced some villages that I know (though not terribly well) but haven't had time to visit yet to fully map them.

Conclusions: OS StreetView will help get a base map in place. It is definitely not as good as manual collection of GPS data or tracing aerial photography but it has the advantage of making places appear where previously there were blanks.

I will fill in details in due course but for now, it actually appears which is better than it was before.

I had the opportunity to fill in a few gaps on my way to and from a meeting in Creiff. So I have added the road to Huntingtower, a few missing roads between Crieff and Madderty/Almondbank, and on the way home added a minor road at Rumbling Bridge, and one near Coupar Angus (which completes the normal roads in that block.)

The rumbling Bridge road overlays a poorly drawn fragment of highway, incorrectly labelled as tertiary. There is so little congruence that I cannot decide what to do with the existing fragment as it links at both ends and I can't determine from the GPS the position of the links on the trace I made.

Filled in a few gaps around Newtyle today. Will be off roading tomorrow.

I've been adding the missing bits and a few paths locally. One question is how to treat historic (listed) buildings.

I've added the watermill (which is derelict) and added tags to try to provide sufficient information to link back to the listed buildings register.

Not sure I have done them correctly though.

Suggestions on appropriate tagging?

Out for a 4 hour bike ride today - added a number of roads. Need to reconcile some issues with data from Yahoo tracing - seems out of place. Plenty of scope for more mapping rides

2 hour training ride to night, with diversions to fill in a few missing roads (just one to go this side of the A94 now) and a meander around Newtyle to get all the streets in place.

Added some pubs etc. as well.

Out on the mountain bike tonight, following the tracks and trails along the old railway line between Dundee and Newtyle. Came back through Dronley Wood. Fun at night!

Filled in a gap in Camperdown Park that has been bugging me and a couple of extra paths in Lochee.

Pootled around Strathmore on Sunday afternoon filling in gaps. Just a couple of wee roads near Campmuir to go, and I rode the missing link into Lundie, and Adamston. Slightly less blank space now.

Off to a race in Fife so I took the opportunity to grab some GPS traces from the car and tidy up the roads around Giffordtown.

I'll look out some more interesting routes home as the season progresses to tidy up some of North Fife.

Out on the bike this morning. 50 miles and a load of new roads on the map. The major Sidlaw climbs are now all present. Added in a load of roads south of the A94 on the North of the Sidlaws.

Drove to Dunkeld this afternoon and took the scenic route back. Added the Murthly-Kinclaven road and the road from Dunkeld to Caputh. More Sidlaws back roads too. Not much left to fill in there

Ran up Law Steps, all round the top of the Law finding many path I didn't know existed. The allotments will need to be marked in but pretty much all the recreational paths etc. are now complete.

Now added the allotments from the aerial photos. Need to add in the rest of the Green Circular route and the various 'spokes' as well.

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A quiet day - added just one path on my way in today. Gradually tidying up some annotation as well.

Just a few odds and ends left to do. It was a very windy day, and lots of hills to climb in a 50 mile round trip to trace some more of the blank bits on the map.

My legs ache but the data is all now traced onto the server.

Came in along the river and added a few missing miles of shared use path - Riverside walk and Seabraes. I should be able now to tag all of NCN 77 as far as Perth, maybe beyond so I'll look at relations tonight and see if I can work out how to add them.