I've not posted a diary entry for a while, but that's not to say that I've not been busy mapping!

I've added some roads plus the monastry at Maarmusa and the other week I drove to Palmyra, taking a new route back. I found a good stretch of unmapped highway from the Palmyra to Homs highway heading southwest towards Damascus that eventually leads onto the Damascus to Homs highway. I've also joined a few roads at some of the villages on the way as well as changing some more roads to railways (my pet gripe of remote mappers!).

At the weekend I walked around the old city in Damascus and have added a few more POIs to the map. I also drove up to Maaloula and added a couple of roads and the Maaloula hotel, as well as the turn off and motorway bridge on the Homs highway that leads to Maaloula.

On my Garmin I'm still having issues with routing from Damascus to Palmyra... the device goes into enless iterations of route calculations before eventually crashing and switching itself off. I've tried chopping the road up into shorter sections to see if this helps?