RogerBW's Blog

Well, I tried geocaching and enjoyed it, but it hasn't really grabbed me enough to go out and look for more sites. But there's an allied trade¸

OpenStreetMap has Notes, essentially a way that mappers can ask for more information at a particular point. (To view them, "Layers" and "Map Notes".) To quote some near me:

"private/residents parking here? needs survey incase there's no restrictions"

"Is this a house (maybe 2 houses)? how's it accessed?"

"diagonal footpath here, conencting ones already mapped like a triangle?"

So on Sunday afternoon I walked out to the nearest noted spot to me, the local trading estate, and gathered information on which units are currently rented and by which businesses. I came home and packed that all up in the form of an OpenStreetMap changeset, and once that's worked through the system the map will be better.

That's the sort of reward that to me means more than being on a leaderboard or leaving a toy at a remote site. And it doesn't need any kind of physical container.