No Man's Land

My most recent surveying and OpenStreetMap edits both took place in the town of Badger, Iowa. A road based on imported data was wrongly shown to cu...

The Mapping Continues

I reached another milestone today: for the first time since I started mapping, I got a funny look. Why today? I attribute this to my mapping locati...

Beyond First Edits!

It’s been a few months since my first humble OpenStreetMap edit. I wrote a diary post for that occasion, and was pleased to have received a nice we...

First Edit!

I’ve just made my first edit to OpenStreetMap! I marked a restaurant in my neighborhood in Portland, Oregon as closed. It’s been closed for several...