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PhoebeSM

Mapper since:
December 07, 2023
Last map edit:
April 18, 2025

I live in Kansas City. I love Kansas City, but there’s a lot of work to be done to make it its best self. I will be mapping little areas around my home based on a combo of local knowledge and in-person surveying as I happen to get time. Occasionally if I travel I may map wherever I’m traveling as well.

Mapping interests: I’m mapping all the restaurants I can find with legitimate gluten-free options (something other than a salad), little free libraries (free-standing book cabinets), public / publicly accessible restrooms, water fountains, and most of all I have a special place in my heart for old-school photo booths, which are nigh impossible to find by googling.

Some items I have recently been pleasantly surprised to learn I could map: art (including murals and graffiti), memorial and historical plaques, outdoor exercise equipment stations, compressed air machines, dog poop bag dispensers, bins for used clothing donation, US mail drop boxes, bulletin boards. I’m sure I’ll come across more types of POIs that I can map, and begin adding them as I go.

I am pretty new at this, so if you see an error in one of my change sets please let me know. I am open to any pointers or suggestions that the more experienced folks here have. Thanks!

Latest Diaries

Diary Entry Wrapping up 43rd, starting on Main

Yesterday I mapped two parks along 43rd which I decided would be the final portion - 43rd does continue east of I-435 but in the interest of some k...

Comments 0 comments Date February 11, 2024

Diary Entry 43rd from Gillham Park to Indiana

This weekend I started mapping the east-of-Gillham part of 43rd St in KC. I went from Gillham to just past 71 on Saturday, and further east to Indi...

Comments 2 comments Date January 28, 2024

Diary Entry "Nodes" (incorrect use) on 43rd

I know that Nodes means something else in OSM but still trying to come up with a better term for what I have started considering nodes - namely are...

Comments 4 comments Date January 07, 2024

Diary Entry West extremity of 43rd, with some company

I got my husband to join me and help me with mapping today. We went from approx. State Line Road in KC on 43rd St (we think of it as 43rd though th...

Comments 1 comment Date December 30, 2023