I added by first street numbers today, up along Route 5 and some of the surrounding streets. I think I'm getting the hang of it: addr:housenumber and addr:street are pretty easy.

I've decided that GNIS landmarks are highly suspicious: I've found town halls on the wrong side of the river, churches erroneously placed in the deep woods, and multiple stacked landmarks. So far, they've been pretty much entirely wrong.

On an unrelated note, I despair about ever getting an accurate amenity map in the US through manual editing, even with OSM Tracker and similar tools. Better, perhaps, to get street numbers at every intersection, crawl the web for addresses, and geocode them.

I wonder if the Google Street View cars are running OCR on images of business signs? I can't imagine that they're not—it seems entirely obvious after two days of mapping.