As I wrote some time ago, I started mapping (remotely) in Indianola, Iowa. I have now reached completion (as complete as it can be with the imagery available) with buildings and added more street furniture, minor highways etc.

In total, I added or modified 6,428 buildings.

The number of trees added by myself has gone up to 1,185.

Thanks to the two mapillary sequences by Hopen111 (THANKS!) of the same road (North and South Jefferson), I was able to add building levels and quite a bit of street furniture (some of which is also visible on Bing, of course), such as

• street lamps (177 along that road) (check out on streetlights map)
• fire hydrants (19)
• speed limit signs and speed limit on road (8)
• manholes (27) - I’ve never added so many manholes to any settlement in my life, I think
• street cabinets (27)

I’ve also added 16 sports pitches and 20 flowerbeds which mostly came from Bing imagery.

In a college town like Indianola (and you don’t have to study geography!), I’d like to see more street-level imagery collected. It would also be good to map defibrillators, if there are public AEDs in Indianola. In the whole of Iowa, there are only 3 AEDs mapped (in Burlington), and there 200 fewer AEDs mapped in the whole of the US than in Ireland (openaedmap.org) which is worrying considering the demographic at risk…

I was an interesting challenge; the grid like streets made it quite easy to be efficient about it - even though I might have still missed some spots.

EDIT: Oops, forgot to add the f4map link: https://demo.f4map.com/#lat=41.3635365&lon=-93.5621150&zoom=16&camera.phi=0.573