I just found out about OpenStreetMap about 3 weeks ago, and the whole project has me completely psyched. I'd love to get a GPS that can upload data so I can map some trails in my home state of Maine, but that's a project for the summer.

In the meantime, I'm taking it upon myself to map all of the buildings, shops, and POIs in Andover, Massachusetts and nearby Phillips Academy (where I am a student) by the end of this school year. I'll do this mostly through Potlatch tracing Yahoo Imagery combined with my knowledge of the area, as I don't have a GPS, and JOSM won't work with the WMS plugin on Ubuntu. (If anyone has that working, could they please update the HowTo on the wiki? Thanks.) I'll also see if the school will let me use some real maps of the campus, but that is yet to be determined. Work is going pretty steadily - I have a fairly complete map of the campus and its buildings, and have just started on the town itself. I also cleaned up a nasty mess just to the northeast of Andover of ~25,000 duplicate nodes. (A big thank you to the author of the Validator plugin in JOSM!) So here's hoping for good luck and a successful 2009.