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Pleatst troch davidearl op 20 novimber 2008 yn it English.

Cambridge's latest Park & Ride site opened last Saturday. I really needed a map of it (don't ask!) so in major drizzle and on the bleak windswept edge of the fends our intrepid hero went to map essentially a huge car park. Brought the tracks home, and what's this: parts of the car park appearing before his very eyes? Has someone added psychic thought inference to the system? No, someone else (comsomol) had exactly the same idea at pretty much the same time. A few minutes different and we'd have bumped into each other navigating round the car park. Ho hum.

Lokaasje: Milton, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, England, United Kingdom
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Reäksje fan LivingWithDragons op 21 novimber 2008 om 12.47 oere

Looks like you;ll start racing to map new places as they're built/opened. This could be interesting if there's no public opening.
I came across a building site of some new houses, mappped some open roads and mapped some stubs up to the chain link fencing. I could see the new road layout through the fencing, no houses yet.

Reäksje fan nm7s9 op 21 novimber 2008 om 13.03 oere

You think you had it bad !!!!

I got a plane from Australia to LA, then another to Las Vegas. There I hired a Shelby Mustang to drive the 14 passes through the Spagettiball intersection, needed to map this monstrosity properly.

Arriving back in Australia, I load up my tracks only to find that Blars has just mapped this intersection beautifully.

Doesn't matter - driving the Shelby on the wrong side of the road under those conditions was serious fun.

Reäksje fan comsomol op 22 novimber 2008 om 07.56 oere

Hopefully this is an indication of how well Openstreetmap can be kept up to date in the future, when areas have been fully mapped. Will people be keeping an eye on their local area, monitoring new developments? It's certainly the case here in Cambridge at any rate!

Reäksje fan Mark Williamson op 23 novimber 2008 om 22.51 oere

Well, I think that's a pretty good sign - OSM really is super up-to-date! I didn't realise that car park was open yet - they've completed it fairly quickly, it seems.

Well done to both of you!

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