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Sparks

Mapper since:
November 17, 2008
Last map edit:
July 28, 2025

About me

I enjoy hiking which means I use OSM data a lot. If I’m not using the data already in OSM I’m contributing to it for others to enjoy. I also enjoy participating in HOT activations and try to give my time whenever possible.

My contributions

Latest Diaries

Diary Entry North Carolina Mountains-to-Sea Trail complete (almost)

A few days ago I wrote about my plans to map the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, putting each segment into its own relation (and then putting all relations...

Comments 3 comments Date September 12, 2020

Diary Entry Updating the North Carolina Mountains-to-Sea Trail

The North Carolina Mountains-to-Sea Trail extends from, as you might guess, the mountains of North Carolina to the ocean. The last time I had look...

Comments 2 comments Date September 10, 2020

Diary Entry Adding food banks and soup kitchens

After updating lots of opening_hours changes, as well as adding new delivery options and takeout only tags, I realized that I was missing a subset ...

Comments 0 comments Date March 22, 2020

Diary Entry Updating attributes for the Corona virus pandemic

Lots of changes to our geographic landscape has been happening since the beginning of the Corona virus pandemic (COVID-19). No, the land masses ha...

Comments 1 comment Date March 20, 2020