I mapped part of Market Street today from about 4th street to Embarcadero. I focus mostly on transit (bus stops, subway entrances, etc.,) banks, ATMs, mailboxes, useful shops like optometrists and shoe repair places, and anything open 24 hours a day. I skip most bars and restaurants simply because there are too many of them and they don't interest me.

Mapping transit on this particular corridor is pretty time consuming because there is so much of it! There are three layers of dual track rail and a ton of bus lines along the corridor; it took me over two hours to map about half a mile of road. Lots of banks and atms along this section, too, and I try to map them well.

On that note, does anyone have an editor they recommend for entering lots of tags? To me, JOSM is a complete nightmare that I can't use and potlatch is rather less than ideal, although better than it used to be.

One other cool thing. A few hours after I entered the data I'd gathered someone had already corrected a mistake I'd made (entering the name of 7-Eleven in as 7-11.) Its good to see people watching out for that sort of thing; it made me smile.

Cheers,
Greg