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Just mapping along

Posted by Hans van Wijk on 18 June 2009 in English.

And again still mapping and not so much making entries in my diary, but nevertheless here is one:

Spanderswoud has nearly finished, but due to the thick tree canape during summer, my GPS tracks aren't much reliable there, so I save it for autumn/winter/spring.

I'm now concentrating on a whole new area for me: over the last few weeks I started working on completing a rather large regional cycle network in my neighbourhood, up to entering all the route relations in a network relation. The location with this entry is close to the middle of the cycle network. Here you'll see it on our map for route relations: http://openfietskaart.nl/?zoom=12&lat=52.25773&lon=5.11733&layers=0B000TTFFFTF

Also during the last few weeks/months I started using JOSM more and more and I'm now up to doing 95% of the mapping in JOSM. Yes, there's a steep learning curve and it's not meant for the faint hearted, but in the end you'll upload better database additions and it has a lot of features that are not found in Potlatch, especially when you're dealing with relations as much as I do right now.

Location: 's-Graveland, Wijdemeren, North Holland, Netherlands

I didn't write any diary entries in a long time, but did map a lot! I did all the footpath's of the parks in between 's-Graveland and Hilversum. Just check it out!

Right now I'm working on the park 'Spanderswoud'. Every week a new section of footpaths is being added. Along with any section of water I can find/see. It's been great fun to explore my own backyard, so to speak, finding tracks I never knew existed each time.

Location: Hilversum, North Holland, Netherlands