After seeing how lacking the map of my hometown is, today I started to add shops and amenities one by one on the ground using OSMAnd and uploading them instantly or when at home, then fixing the incorrect ones using JOSM.

I believe I can add quite a lot if I do this everyday as the city is pretty small but some hand would surely be welcome.

I have been working on the Student City area for about 2 or 3 weeks now, and almost 85% of the buildings have been added, old ones were corrected and their properties were enhanced and/or fixed.

There is still a LOT of work to do, but I really want to finish it all before the start of next year. That won’t be it though, later on it starts the hardest part, ground editing to add shops and maybe take pictures for Mapillary, but that is for another time.

After using iD editor for quite some time, I decided to try JOSM. Getting it to run went smooth as oil, added the bg layer I work with easily and decided to tweak the settings a bit. Noticed a LOT of plugins, but I was looking for something specific, and found it, the awesome Area Selector plugin.

I was AMAZED by the accuracy it provides (all hail computers and technology) and it helped me tremendously. My buildings creation rate went up by at least 20x and mapping is so much easier.

Thanks to all the devs that worked on JOSM and the plugin creators (thnx to OSM too, ofc).

I have spent two or three days now and have mapped a large part of Student City using correct data provided by the Municipality of Tirana and applied as a background layer to make my job easier. I am pretty happy with the results so far, have added around 2500 buildings, many businesses based on pictures I took while biking and I intend to map at least 90% of that area part of Tirana.

After seeing a before and after comparision I just love the final results, you can notice how dense that part of the city is now even compared to the city centre (still a LOT of businesses missing from the map, but I’ll make sure to add some more too in the upcoming days).

Today I edited my first locations on the map,to be exact in Fier,Albania and I am planning to be active and help the community in creating the best available maps.