Took the family out to a large local park this morning. We wandered around the park collecting trails and looking for geocaches. I have to admit that we were much better at collecting trails. Found 1 geocache, but never did find the other. Oh well, it is a good excuse to go back again. Still more trails to add and still more caches to be found.

The family and I went to this park today for a visit. It is a really interesting facility with a restored, and operable water-driven mill. They were not operating the mill today, but they do so fairly regularly. They have a nice picnic area, blacksmith shop, miller's home, old general store, and a nature trail.

While we were there, we gathered a bunch of data for OSM and added it. I found that the GNIS data had the park on the wrong side of Route 7, but I updated it in OSM.

This is a really interesting park to visit if you get the chance, especially if the mill is operating that day.

I have been using data collection for OSM as an excuse to go walking. I take the dog and the GPS and hit the road. I didn't do much over the winter, but have been active already this spring and hope to be busy all summer. I am really learning a lot about my own neighborhood just by walking around.

I have noticed that a lot of folks who have added paths have called them either foot- or cycle-ways when they appear not to be officially designated as either, so I just call any of the ones I edit paths.

Initially, I chose not to tie paths into roads, but have seen that most others do so and it would support bicycle routing I suppose. As a result, I have gone back and tied my previous paths into streets, usually using sidewalks to get there, and then have been tying my new ones into streets as I go along.

I plan to continue spreading out through my area and learning new parts of my neighborhood in search of new paths to walk.