so the beach town is seeing growth again, after the primary developers went bust in 2007/8. A large amount of blank land between the shops and the harbour has been cleared, and given asphalt roads, concrete footpaths, and brackish ponds for the mosquitoes to grow in! I hope the new holiday home owners like mosquitoes!

My GPS accuracy is not great and my note taking while walking is worse; but I’ve drawn some new ways on the new footpaths; and verified some of the existing paths from Kenwood Drive to Waimarie Ave are still approximately where my GPS says they are. Good fun.

Need to go back with a laptop next summer to add/tweak more. Hopefully LINZ has updated by then to provide even better coverage

Well, actually, Matarangi Beach is more of a holiday town and less of a wilderness.
It even has 3G coverage.

I'm mapping using my Nokia N900 phone++; it even has an app called "OSM2GO" which claims to let you make changes directly - walk up to a signpost, add a node where the real-time GPS track shows and annotate it. No more "make track" and "wait until I get to a real computer to update the database".

Only one problem. "osm2go" can't seem to log onto the website when it's on a 3G network. It can only upload or download when I'm at home on WiFi again.

So now I'm annotating and uploading my GPS tracks. Expect to see Matarangi Beach when the map renders again next.

Okay, the accuracy of my GPS unit is "reasonable". It can take a very long time to start locking and it occasionally gets weird along the way, but it's got most things about where I would expect to find them.
In a car, it's nowhere accurate enough to plot bus stops.
Bus Stops in Hamilton do not have any identifying numbers on them indicating route either. I guess I can mark where the pole is...

Looks like the most fun I can have is going to be on foot, walking around plotting where things are.

Well, it's addictive.

Now I need to find the right balance between obsession and overload (with the resulting spiral into apathy).

And need to find the other Kiwis who are working on importing LINZ data. There must be something I can do to help and it should save doing the work twice..

Oh, and I should work out how accurate my cellphone GPS is. Assisted-GPS without any Internet Assistance, might give me a wide variation in observed location against actual location.