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Rediscovering what is close

Posted by mabapla on 25 May 2009 in English.

On Saturday I was on a big "let's close some OpenStreetBugs and fill in some names" tour.
My main destination was the town of Altenriet about 10 km cycling distance from my home. The streets had been drawn from Yahoo images about a year ago but nobody ever got there to put in the street names. But now the right time for me to go had come.
On the way there and back I wanted to close some OpenStreetBugs, especially one that I found was too close to my home to be left alone any longer. :-)
I also discovered the heath (called the Haberschlaiheide) in my neighbour town Bonlanden that I wanted to locate for quite a long time.

During the past weeks I somehow had the feeling that my surrounding had become boring and that I had to put my bike into the car to get to interesting places that I hadn't seen yet.
This tour proved me wrong and that's my message for everyone: Even if you think that all the interesting stuff around you has been mapped, go out and you'll probably discover nice new places such as an unknown clearing or small lake in the forest. Well, unless you've really been everywhere, but that would involve a raster of 50 m I'd say.
It also proved me wrong in thinking that all the (relevant) tracks in the forests to the south-west such as the Schönbuch had already been done.

Now I need to sit down during the week and actually put the names in Altenriet (and some in Schlaitdorf) into OSM.

Location: Bonlanden, Filderstadt, Landkreis Esslingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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