Recent street mapping in Cameron Park (took about 6 hours to do..), Edgeworth (4 hours), the Cardiff CBD and Industrial area (3 hours), Cardiff North (3 hours), plus some finer details in Teralba.

Nearly all of it being done at night, mostly because I waste the day failing to motivate myself outside :) ... Tonight's Cardiff North ride saw my first confrontation with someone wanting to knowwhatthefsckareyoudoin??? ..with a newbie Harley rider practicing his turns. Still, it was less hassle than having some girls or kids standing in the way of the camera like what happens during the day.

Something to note: for those 3 hour late-night street mapping rides, I've been relying on my "Fat Hippy Lights Mk.III", wired to a motorcycle battery slung underneath the bike's top-bar. It cost about $40 to put together, including battery, and gets me about 7 hours of light from 12W Halogens. Link: http://www.users.on.net/~fathers/lightstoc.htm

Re: the previous mention about using a throat microphone with the scooter-- my MP3 player with mic-in (as opposed to audio-in) I discovered had died of old age, and no contemporary MP3 players have the feature. I'm piecing together a 'low voltage' preamplifier to take care of that. (Alternatively there's specialist voice recorders with mic-in, although they're disproportionately pricey..)