Sardis OSM Complete

Well, I've completed adding all the public streets in Sardis to Open Street Map. It may take around a week for the mapnik renderer to catch up to my changes, but you can view the map at http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.1245&lon=-121.9701&zoom=13&layers=B00FTF. The precise completion area can be seen in the following image, in highlighted red:



Last summer I managed to take my bike down every single road inside that red area. I'm not sure what the total distance covered is, but it's quite a bit. This summer I went around with my camera collecting road names from street signs (and finding several errors in road names on Google Maps!)

You'll notice (if you know the area) that I haven't gone up Promontory, or into Yarrow or Cultus yet.

Also not included in the map are private roads. While I could've easily gone to collect information on these roads, that would require trespassing, so I decided to leave those roads out. If someone gets invited onto the property, or actually lives on the private roads, then they can do the survey and really complete the map. Private roads that I didn't survey include: trailer parks, gated communities, and native reserve roads.

Also included in the map so far are many of the fast food restaurants in the area, gas stations, rail lines, schools, and high voltage power lines/sub stations.

I'm going to take a break from mapping for a bit to do other things, but I might be able to do some of Yarrow or Chilliwack before the summer is out. I notice that Vancouver down near UBC is almost completed (by other people), so I will have nothing to do over the school year!