It’s the nearly the end of summer break for me. Since my dad is not working this week, our family has been taking vacations. And while I’m away from home on vacation, I do surveys for OSM. With school starting soon (next Wednesday), I can’t check OSM frequently anymore. I feel I’m putting myself in a time crunch. Locally, there is stuff that I want to survey. On top of that, there is stuff from vacations that I want to enter on the map.

This past Monday and Tuesday, I was at Government Camp, Oregon for a trip to the Mt Hood area. Along the way on US 26, I was recording the speed limits on it. Then, there are the POIs. I managed get more info for some of them (Summit Chevron was probably my best). Since the Bing imagery was pretty bad over there, I barely got to add building footprints to the map.

Tomorrow, I’ll have a trip to the Seattle metro area. I know that I’m going to Bellevue and Seattle, and staying at Everett for the night. I don’t know what I’ll run in to at my time there. I’ll be planning to add exit signage for I-5.

Locally, I still have stuff to do. Much of the speed limit data over here is wrong or missing, and I’d like to change that. I just want to start improving a small section of C-TRAN route 30’s bus stops that are not part of other routes.

When my vacation workflow takes over my local workflow, I feel like I’m working too much in this time crunch. Due to school, I’ll be reducing my capacity at OSM dramatically. I’ll be checking and surveying by bike on weekends though.

Recently, my bike had some problems. After one is fixed, another one pops up. Last night, my bike’s rear wheel locked up while I was riding it on NE 78th Street in Hazel Dell. As a result, I couldn’t pedal anymore. I had to walk for a long time (about 30 minutes) before I came home. Currently, my parents are checking out the problem on my bike. I don’t own a car, so I can’t do the work I want to do for OSM because the destinations I want are far away. (Sure, I do have a C-TRAN 10-ride punch card, but I don’t want to waste it all). I’ll still be doing some projects that are closer to my home. Until me bike is fixed, I won’t be on the road for a while.