It is finally in the garage, though still without plates. Plates will come next week or so. At the moment we are looking in to getting an audio system, and a GPS mount installed. Future planes is to build my own Navigating Map system using OSM maps, but that is still in the early planing process. At the moment there are no money to buy the necessary hardware.

But most importantly, that big black monster of a car will help in gathering more GPS tracks. The rest of Guarapari will be mapped, and we are now more free to travel to whatever corner of Brazil we want.

By the way, I pay about the same for this car as I would have paid for a Fiat Uno in Norway. I get much more car for the money here in Brazil than I ever would in Norway.

* Also to be installed, a baby seat for my son
* DVD entertainment system (could be part of the future navigator) so the kids can watch their favorite cartoon in the back seat on long trips.
* Extra 12VDC power outlets. Would like 2 in the front and one in the back seat.
* Possibly an 12VDC-110VAC inverter. Our laptops all need more than 12V to operate.

Planned local mapping:
* Muquicaba - Camarugi - back to some main road
* Trevo BR-101 - Boenos Aires - Rio Calcado - Barra Branco
* Some roads in Barrio Porto Grande
* Road up to Lua Azul in Novo Guarapari
* Atleast one road (in addition to main throughroads) to all Barrios in Guarapari

As I still am waiting for money to be released so I can purchase my car, and I still have no bike, and little time to walk down unfamiliar roads, I am trying to enhance the data that is available in my area.

For some reason, Yahoo doesn't work in my JOSM (only get a red banner with exceptions cast), I have to skip to Potlatch when tracing Yahoo imagery, something I don't like much, but as soon as the data is entered I can download it in JOSM and verify it.

I have also started fresh with entering addresses, having a note book dedicated to OSM, where I have sketched several roads, and take notes as I go around. I also try to mark special features, and add from memory.

But hopefully I will get loads of more tracks when I get that car, I already have plans of continuing a few artery roads, and as well drive up to a few villages around Guarapari.

Another possible source for new tracks, as I might get executive driver for my next crew changes at work, I might gather tracks between Guarapari, Macae, and Arraial do Cabo. With some luck I can also ask the driver to take a few roads with less traffic, so that I can complete ES-060, or even find new roads. These executive drivers usually knows a few short cuts.

It is time to start using a different medium for surveying my area. Centro is as complete as I can do it with GPS and a car. I need a bike (to cover cycleways), and I need to start making a series of notes to add house numbers/house names, add amenities that I don't regularly use, find street names that still isn't in. Other items on the list cover such as:
* Zebra crossings
* Light signals
* Lit/unlit streets
* Turn restrictions
* Photo boxes
* Access restrictions
* CEP (postal codes of streets)
* Public phones
* Post boxes
* Gas station fuel types
* Restaurant Cuisine types
So with a dedicated notepad, a car and a bicycle, Guarapari will be even more set more on the map.

I have just started to add turn restrictions in and around Guarapari. I am adding them from knowledge as I do not have the opportunity to actually survey or correct the area at the moment. Much of this are at the moment done on an offline copy on spare hours at work, and I guess there will be a big update later (for some reason contact with OSM server is coming and going, more 0.6 hickups?)

As I started adding addresses (only two this far, and one of them need correction), I have decided that it is about time to actually start adding them. To do so I need to print out a few sheets of local maps where I can note down house numbers, street names, CEP codes, house names, and whatever are used in house numbering. I do not know if I will use interpolation, or only single numbers (most apartment buildings have unique names, and therefor need a separate node anyway)

No, I still don't have my own car, so I am renting one again. The reason? Visitors. We need to get some more around, and during these 3 weeks we have this car I will try to get some more survey work done.

This far I have done the way to Praia Castilanho and and some missing roads in Guarapari Centro have been done. A few additional roads also have been done. Further during these weeks I will have a trip to Ouro Preto and Belo Horizonte, and some other places.

I have also started to look for a bike with a baby-carriage, side-carriage or something similar, something that will allow me to do bicycle survey together with my son.

In the middle of this, I am still struggling to set aside money to buy a car. A dream would be to have a homebrew street navigator utilizing OSM maps as well as gathering GPX tracks, liberating my handheld GPS for footways, cycleways, and tracks.

The Brazilian community is well under way with the IBGE Import that started after IBGE confirmed for us that all their data is in the public domain. The main work is done by two persons, while the rest of us in the community are participating with ideas and views on the mailing list.

The Brazilian community have really awaken, and more people are hooking up to OSM to participate in this. I think the more data we get in, the easier it is for new people to tag in. Some people are also actively participating by tracing Yahoo airal photos from Europe or other places in the world (I know Harry Wood have done this a long time, but he is almost a part of the Brazilian community as his missus is from Sao Paulo).

The plans for Y-NOT is further shaped, and I am now trying to get the first code down, so that I can start to test the functions I want.

I got an idea for my own map software. Something to complete what I feel missing from existing software, and keep it fully cross platform. The name of the software is (at the moment) Y-NOT (pronounced Why Not), an acronym for You Need Only This. You can soon read more about Y-NOT on my project wiki.

Last Sunday I visited Fortaleza da Santa Cruz da Barra in Niterói, I have added some details about it on the map, such as the access road to the fort, the limits of the military area, the parking lot and the restaurant. I might trace the walls of the fort later. There are a few other forts I'd like to visit, but that will have to be another time. They are marked from Yahoo images at the moment. Maybe others visiting Niterói can assist?

Coming Sunday I will pick up a rented car and prepare for the journey back to Guarapari, if time and weather permints I'll ascend Corcovado (the famous Christ statue in Rio de Janeiro), the road up there was impossible to track from areal photos. I will also complete BR-101 through Campos, making the route from Feira da Santana to Angros dos Reis complete. I might also detour to get Cabo Frio and Macae on the map. If time permits I will also pass to track the missing bit of ES-060, though I have a feeling that this goes out.

Sitting onboard a vessel in Niteroí port waiting can be a bit boring. The vessel I work on have had to much dead time now, and we are running out of jobs to do while waiting for the next operation we are going to do offshore.
The problem with all this waiting is that I cannot go ashore with my GPS to survey some of the streets here in Niteroí, both because one officer have to be on the bridge, and because my GPS unit is back home. If this is going to continue than I will start bringing unit to work, so that I can get at least one street by a random stroll.
But in the mean time, I'll browse around the map with JOSM, looking for obvious bugs to report to OpenStreetBug, tracing rivers and lakes with landsat, OpenArealImages and Yahoo areals, and participating actively on the wiki (something I never have time for at home).
Another thing I can do from work is making relations, and have at the moment focused on Brazilian highways and borders. The problem there is that most highways still are incomplete and that we still are missing a lot of border data to draw complete borders around all the 26 Brazilian states. If somebody can get hold of a border data set we can use, please let me know, I will gladly help getting it in.

As I work all around the world, I get a chance to survey areas where I normally wouldn't go. Vigra is one such. Travelling to Norway, my main intensions will be to visit friends and familly, but work have brought me to Vigra, where Ålesund airport is located, about 30 minutes by car from the city.

During evenings off I have had the chance to go for bicycle rides and walks, and bringing my GPS in a pocket gives me tracks to put up on the map. Before my job here is completed for this time, my goal is to have the main road from the tunel at Valderøy to Vigra Airport, the road from Valderøy via Giske to Godøy (there is another tunel, so I'll probably stop at the tunel entrance), and some other local roads put on the map.

...I bought a GPS and started to record streets around Guarapari, than it became a few trips up and down to Vitoria, and than a few trips to Guacui. It even became a trip to Rio de Janeiro and back. My main goal is set to get Guarapari surveyed and put on the map, but I'll also look into connect as many places within Espirito Santo as I can, and get the main routes connecting Espirito Santo with Rio de Janeiro, Minas Girais and Bahia states