Earlier today, I reached my 5 millionth edit. It came to my attention about 10 days ago that I was approaching it, because someone on Twitter had celebrated their 15,000th edit, and I went to check mine on neis-one. I then estimated that it would take me 10-14 days to reach it, and I was right.
My friend DeBigC had given me some praise already in his diary some days ago.
Next stop, 10,000,000, I think. Well, not really stop, just a goal.
It’s not that difficult to get that many changes when you’re working on a big project like Irelands #osmIRL_buildings project. We started on Co. Roscommon mid December 2022, and apart from buildings, I’ve already added 1150km of drystone walls. You read that right.
Part of that was discovering several field systems of unknown date, but I have documented the use how I tag them on the wiki. I don’t expect many field systems like that to survive in many other countries, it’s just that history is all over the place in Ireland.
My new year’s resolution for OSM is to map all the public CCTV in the town near me, partly motivated by my bike having been stolen there some years ago and the case never having been solved, even though I’m sure there was CCTV footage. I’m also adding new bicycle stands with the council is introducing. Might be interesting to see where the bicycle stands are covered by CCTV.
Progress: overpass-turbo (not all my contributions, but most of them are)