With a few free hours, I headed over the Snake Pass to Sheffield this morning. Temporary traffic lights, Nissan Micras seemingly unable to take corners above 25mph and a slightly later set off than I was hoping for meant I arrived in Sheffield pretty late. Luckily, I just caught the other mappers on their way out of the Mappin Building (quite an apt name for the project!).

Up until now, I've either used other people's public GPS traces, or the Yahoo imagery to do my mapping. Today was the first with the GPS in hand. With a quick run-through of the GPS functions, it was onto the streets.

In the morning session, I think I'd covered almost 10 km on foot, but barely covered even a quarter of the land area inside the inner-ring road. Hopefully it should be reasonably complete - apart from a couple of roads where the street name-plate looks to have been stolen for the scrap metal value.

The afternoon session seemed to have been abandoned perhaps due to poorer than expected turnouts - and the possibility of an April re-meet in Sheffield.

Anyway, good to meet a couple of other OSMers. Maybe I'll be tempted to go to the Liverpool meet in mid-November.