Not quite the last hurrah, but close. With three weeks left in Turkmenistan, Ann and I went to Koneurgench to see the marvelous architectural monuments, to the Dashoguz American Corner to give presentations (mine was on the Apollo 11 moon landing and U.S. space program; Ann’s was on White House chinaware). While moving around, we of course collected geodata and imagery.

We had a couple of spare hours during the return, so we went north up the P-1 highway past Ruhubelent to cover a section never before imaged (I will upload the Mapillary imagery after returning to the United States this month, where the Internet is much faster). The road was horrible! It took an hour and a quarter to go 50 kilometers, and at times we drove on the sand because it was smoother than the broken asphalt. Upon return to Ashgabat I logged into OSM and downgraded the P-1 north of Ruhubelent from trunk road to tertiary road. We identified several villages and other POIs, corrected one mistagged object (it was not a residential area, it was a cotton yard), and so on.