Two things got me back into mapping. One I am thinking of retiring and this will give me a lot more time to do it. And two we recently acquired a puppy dog (A Coton de Tulear) that needs taking for walks so I have been exploring local pathways to use for said walks. In any event I have also been a fairly regular user of an iphone/ipad app called Galileo for quite some time now and I love maps.

I realised that it must be well over a year since I looked at doing any mapping. JOSM is not on my current computer (replaced 18 months ago). I do however have loads of photos, routes and speech commentaries that I have meant to use in doing map updates. Always happens when I am on holiday and I never got time to apply them on my return. Places like Ireland, San Francisco, Athens, Sidney, Queensland and Singapore are obviously all the poorer for not having my map updates applied onto OSM!

So first step was to downloaded JOSM which I did yesterday 25/07/15. Some quick reading on how to use - somehow seems easier this time round and then off on a long walk to gather some data. This is an enjoyable and healthy way to do mapping. I like walking and exploring with a purpose and actually find it very relaxing. However the battery on my iphone ran out half way through so I will need to revisit some of the walk. Not too unhappy about that either! I specifically wanted to correct one of the local footpaths which is incorrectly shown on OSM and unfortunately my battery had run out before I got to the relevant bit.

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