Hello everybody.

I'm currently in Bangalore, India.
I'm truly amazed by the quality that OSM has already reached here. I didn't think it would be that good.
Virtually all big roads, parks, most of the important sights - it's all there.
Even the residential road (in an area called HSR layout) where the friend that I'm visiting lives - it's there.
The names of smaller roads are often missing though, but so are the road signs.
On Thursday we were in Mysore (west of Bangalore, famous for its palace) which is also quite well covered.

Sure, there is still a lot of work to be done in India and in the cities that I mentioned, especially when you reach the outskirts and certainly when you get to truly rural areas (which I haven't). (Not to speak of agricultural tracks or hiking paths etc., but I think they are much less important than in Europe as people here, as far as I know, rarely go on a leisure tour by bike or foot from their home to some other place, which is the main reason to map these tracks in my opinion.)
POIs are also a rather weak point, even many fuel stations or other important places such as pharmacies, supermarkets and so on are still missing.
This is somewhere where I will make my contribution, but don't hold your breath as I won't get home for another two weeks (staying at the Maldives) and I still have really old trips that I should process first.

Best wishes, especially to the mappers of India!

Markus