Mapping my own neighborhood is fun because this is place where I grew up. Its was easy to recognize houses, stores, and other buildings because this is my neighborhood. But as I opened OSM to look for my neighborhood, I was shocked to see that almost half of the 0-100 meters is not yet mapped. My whole neighborhood are basically full of houses because I live in a subdivision. So that is the reason why half of map are empty.

Now its a challenge for me because I need to finish mapping the whole area of emptiness. As I started mapping my field paper outside, things went funny while looking for details. I’ve encountered this old lady who told me “What are you doing young man?”. I’ve said “I am mapping and getting details for field paper that I’m working on.”. She said “What field paper?”. I’ve said “Field paper is an assignment for us students in CWTS, this will help update the map online so that people could navigate and see the location they want to easily.”. The old lady said “Online?? Internet?? Internet makes us addicted to it and it could make tutorials of bombs or destroy the world!!”. I was confused because I only wanted to finish my field paper and this old lady came up to me saying Internet is going to kill us all. But I have no time for destruction for the world so I left the old lady hanging in the air. I’ve continued working on my field paper and after 1 hour of roaming around my neighborhood I came home to rest and finish my field paper on the next days.

Its was a fun experience. 10/11 would repeat again.