Did my first heavy address mapping. Had very few streets. The got WMS plugin to get sat view. Drew as many streets as visible. Already had the information map from the sector. Job started. Have mapped 25% of the sector in about 3 hours. No clue why I "wasted" so much of my sunday evening but was enjoying every bit of it. Specially when mapnik has these days started rendering so quickly. Adjusted the spacing a few times for a few lines. Finally got the job done. Actually since the another 3 quaters still remain, will be spending another few days in completing them too.

Seems like OSM has more new things faster than you can get mapping your neighbourhood. Had mapped most of the streets around where I live and it was beconing either a power=tower or a POI flooding, and then came the JOSM with address tool. fan-tas-tic! Even better is the pic layer plugin. The only problem is sector maps are most often not to scale so overlay does not always help so much. Anyway, piclayer can atleast help in address mapping nevertheless.

Have spend this saturday evening in collecting such sector maps (6 pictures total using a 12mp cam handheld cam) from their enterances. The maps for new sectors are though drawn but are without any actuall streets. So those maps can't be used at all. While other maps are merely just streets without plot numbers so they help in mere mapping the blocks in the sector. From all the maps I have seen till date, only one was digitally map (Nirvana Country). Every map seen is always hand oil-painted. The times when these boards get made are many years before the first house comes up on these sectors. So, they loose their accuracy after about 3 years. All HUDA sectors never change the map for more than a decade and are outdated by more than 10 percent. Have not located errors on them yet. Will take time for OSM users here to use the map and then later find problems.