4th Jan 2025 and 10 Million, nodes that is, I’ve set, dragged, deleted as at yesterday and the 2 days downtime broke the 1500+ days series of uninterrupted mapping. Here’s to the next.

April 1, 25 , really, and we’re on 11 Million, 3 months near exactly or 11,111 nodes a day, keeping me from the streets away.

Sept 12, 2025, a slow one with six zeros added to get to 12,004,134 exact. It’s a still summer and sunny so the pushbike will be getting more attention today.

Dec. 12, 2025, ‘back on track’, one more million nodes in 3 months exact, only 13,011,800 according to the HDYC tracker.

Feb 4, 2025, reached 2000 mapping days and a coowl 1 million nodes added to OSM in 60 days per the HDYC site., 14 Million cum is up somewhere around the 10-12th,.. that figures \o/.

“Have I offended someone?”, someone asked.

After doing this intensely for 8 months, constant COVID-19 lockup, it’s depressing how poor the quality, but foremost the tag completeness is. At times it’s like boxcars. There’s many who never seem to follow up on their issues left behind, unconnected ways, routers, they don’t understand 2 end nodes 1 meter apart… there’s no way for them to go from one to the other. We plod on though and keep witteling away at it. Both the navigators I use are OSM data based so whatever I can resolve along the ways I traverse, helps me plotting the next long distance cycle tours in particular… is it up or down, the angle, what quality is the surface, yes here in Abruzzo it’s not a given, many cracks and potholes… cost me 2 wheel rims already so recently switched to 2.5 inch wide rubber wheeled bike… much more conformable. Keep going.