Last week I uploaded my 500,000th GPX point made with my Garmin eTrex Vista HCx, which I've had since Christmas, the half-millionth point somewhere near Nottingham on a recent trip there. I've so far found it a very good GPS unit; usually gets a very good signal - the tracks I get look to be very close together if I have to go over the same road on another visit. The mass-storage mode makes it very easy to upload the tracks to OSM, and I've had no problems with the OSM on Garmin maps.

Having the GPS has enabled me to map the area outside the Manchester Yahoo imagery, and now, most of the rural areas of North and East Cheshire are approaching completeness, at least in terms of the road network. There are countless footpaths and bridleways to do - and then Macclesfield has hardly been touched yet, so that'll be a goal over the next couple of months.

I've started doing Congleton, which, until a couple of days ago just had the main A-roads.