Anigozanthos

I have always had a fascination with maps. I would regularly just open the street directory and flick through the pages. When playing computer games I would spend ages drawing maps so I could see where I had been. Years ago I had a pirate copy of Ultima 4 for my Apple 2. I produced my own world map using 2mm graph paper. It must have been about 40x40cm, each tiny square coloured in according to the terrain type. Cities, towns and dungeon entrances all marked accordingly.

More recently, I've bought the Natmap Raster 250K, which consists of 250K scale digitized topographic maps for all of Australia. It includes 1M, 5M and 20M scale maps too. So I could have them on my phone (using PathAway software), I spent hours exporting hundreds (500+) of individual map tiles, converting them to PathAway format, then calibrating their extents. I've also grabbed the Perth Bike Maps and converted them to PathAway.

So how come I've only just now found OpenStreetMap? Cool! An outlet for my map fascination that might be useful to other people.

For my city, Perth, they naturally seem to have the streets in quite well. Bicycle paths much less so. What I might start with is some GPS tracks of cycleways I logged last year and see how hard it is to get that into the map. Then I might think about plotting some bus stop locations on the map. I could use my new camera with geo-tagged photos of each stop and see what happens