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Am still working on, but mostly just thinking about, my OSM activity processes …

Had to visit the doctor yesterday and, of course, "It's Happening" Brisvegas mostly only runs hourly bus services during the day. I would have about 30 minutes to kill if I took the latest bus service arriving before my appointment (and we wonder why the roads are full of cars). "Ah", I thought, "jump off early and see what I can map". Checked the target area, and indeed it needs some names off the main arterials. Printer still refusing to print, so I drew me a mudmap from the slippy with required names highlit. Took the GPS unit just in case.

Alighted on Annerley Road. Easy walking and marking, down to Mater Hill, arriving right on time. Shame the doctor wasn't so punctual :~P. Used my time waiting in the doctor's surgery to clarify my handwriting and ponder wildly, as you do. Figured I can actually do quite a bit of mapping from the bus, turning more dead time each day into mapping time. Can't catch everything from a moving bus, so just build up details a bit more each day. Am particularly interested in recording details about bus stops.

This morning I got most of the bus stop names and numbers, some features. I thought about a bus stop details form I might produce to make the task easier. For the interim, I've made up little shorthand squiggles for different features. Fun if not useful. Actually, it will be useful - on the way back yesterday, I noticed yet more confused foreign visitors (students?), their first time on the route, struggling with the contextless lines the timetable producers seem to expect passengers can follow. Why o why can't our public service providers use their whole arse?

I've now put most of the names into the dataset, but suspect I just missed the weekly snapshot deadline.