I joined OSM 11 years ago. My area was poorly mapped. I thought I’d get cracking on the streets, but didn’t.

eventually I returned and got into mapping of buildings and other features. I started on adding addresses to all the properties in Copmanthorpe. This entailed redrawing the vast majority of buildings, many of which had been draw as one building when in fact they were many.

I concentrated in the areas I was most familiar with. And when I was canvassing before elections, I’d return to the map and add the address of the streets I’d cover.

I’d complete halfish of the suburb.

Then I came across 3D buildings. Intrigued, I set about learning how to “draw” houses. Mainly woking on properties I’d previously mapped, I built-up skills and faster techniques.

I decided to map the all the main block of Copmanthorpe. Over 1500 properties. Improved the drawing off all, complete all the addresses and make the all 3D.

Today, 10 days later I completed it. It’s here on OSM Buildings

I also added a ton of other features along the way. Not being buildings, they don’t feature on OSM Buildings. They do appear on F4map

However, f4map doesn’t seem so keen on using the latest updates, so I get a random selection of old and new mapping. I guess that will improve with time.

The next stage is to revisit the area. There are a lot of garages that could still be added, and over 1000 gardens, if I can be bothered. I also want to improve my building with multi part buildings. I haven’t got my head around that yet. Working with small buildings appears to be the problem.