[OSM-talk] some mapping questions

[SteveC]

Now I live somewhere with more to map (and a view of the sky so the GPS
gets a lock) I've been getting in to regular mapping.

What do you guys do with all the roads marked 'PRIVATE ROAD' or 'no
turning' or 'we will shoot you'? I've been going down all of them and
havn't been challenged. Perhaps NickW or someone who knows about rights
of way can comment from that angle too?

I've also noticed that a lot of the more exclusive roads claim to be
private dead ends but are in fact nice short cuts.

How do you keep track of stuff that you havn't quite mapped? Say you've
done an area but you know there are a few more roads off to the side...
how do you remind yourself a few days later? I've been leaving
un-way-grouped segments about on the map to remind me to go back and
look but it's not perfect. Mapping my area has turned in to one big long
deja vu: "I'm _sure_ I've been down this close already"... they all look
alike!

So then when I get out there and try to remember which bits I havn't
mapped or garbled the names of on the dictaphone... I can't remember.
Maybe printing out a screenshot from JOSM might help.

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/