Last week on the margins of the Turkmenistan Gas Congress held in Awaza I did some update mapping of the the Awaza resort zone, with extensive use of Mapillary to capture imagery. Since the zone is now off-limits to private automobiles it was a rare opportunity to capture bus stops, new hotels and facilities, and generally to upgrade the map. I also added several names of streets in downtown Turkmenbashy and edited the existing street names extensively to bring them into conformance with what is actually on street signs. Russian main name entries are now name:ru=* entries. I added two cemeteries, some street addresses, and edited a couple of streets based on GPS traces. The new expanded seaport, under construction by Gap Inşaat and due to be completed next year, has changed the coastline so I need to review recent satellite imagery and update that as well.

This weekend I added POIs to the new village of Bereketli Zaman, including the fire station and mosque, then added interpolation=* ways so the village should now be largely navigable by house number. It is a strictly cookie-cutter layout so deviation of the mapped house numbers from reality should be minimal.