Did some travelling over the weekend and have made a couple of major additions to the Syria map.

Deir Ezzor now has road accross the river (and the old French bridge is also now marked as a footpath). Also added a couple of restaurants, fuel station and a hotel.

I've also added the service road that links up the two oil pipeline pumping terminals T3 and T2, between Palmyra and Deir Ezzor and the Bagdad Cafe 66 is now marked on the road back from Palmyra to Damascus.

I've made a few other minor changes and additions to Damascus and Palmyra.

I'm really impressed on how quick the Syria map is developing, considering how little there was half a year ago! I know it's down to just a small number of guys, so keep up the good work!

Went to the Sheraton in the center of Damascus for lunch this weekend and have added the hotel and the service road to the hotel's parking to the map.

I noticed that the main road that I exited off needs modifying, since it should be two one way roads, not a single road as shown on the map at the moment.

Also made a modification to the roundabout near Shami Hospital and added a bit of park.

Last week I added the tunnels under "crazy roundabout", but I think there's another bit of tunnel to add here?

I continue to modify the names of places with both English and Arabic and ensuring when I do so that the Arabic name is also given a name:ar key (plus the name:en key). Would be good if others followed suit, otherwise these maps are only any use to Arabic readers.

I've connected up the main road through Bosra and added a few streets in the town along with POIs for some of the main historic highlights of the town.

I've tried to put some of the "pedestrian" roads of the old Roman town, based on GPS tracks from both me and a friend.

I'll be heading back to Bosra a few times so will try and fill in the gaps and add a few street names.

As a general note, it would be really useful if people added both the English and Arabic in the generic names in the Middle East, otherwise these maps are only any use to Arabic readers (since I've not seen a way to filter the language on OSM yet, although I'm sure it's possible!).