I've had a message from 80n about mapping Hull. Originally I thought I'd stick to the East Riding, but now I've done some work in Hull. It's fairly close to home and there are a number of challenges.

Firstly the railway stopped short of the station, which is a terminus. I found as many places as possible to access the railway, such as bridges and roads alongside the track and I've mapped some of the tracks, including goods lines.

I've also looked up the boundary between Hull and the East Riding from info from both councils. I've traced most of it on the ground so I can draw the boundary. Of course both of these projects have mapped roads too and I've added some streams too.

I'm finding the API server incredibly slow sometimes, so it can be frustrating. I guess funds are tight, but a bit more power is needed. A lot depends on the server, all editing downloads and uploads (JOSM, Potlatch etc.) rely on it and every tile that gets rendered needs it too. It could be the MySQL server that is the bottleneck, but whatever I feel it could endanger the project because people might give up.

I've also gleaned a list of all of the towns, villages etc in East Yorkshire. I wondered if I should post it in Wiki as a means of tracking progress, but since there are only a couple of people working in East Yorkshire it is maybe OTT.