First Experience with OpenStreetMap
My hometown Glems doesn't exist, at least not in [OpenStreetMap](http://openstreetmap.org). An empty spot with a road going through it.
So I decided to take my bike and GPS and create a map of Glems. Although is not a big city it took over two hours to get all the data needed for an almost complete map of the important streets.
Back home the actual work started: Drawing the streets on top of the recorded tracks and adding marked POIs. I was using [JOSM](http://josm.openstreetmap.de/), a Java OpenStreetMap editor. I found it pretty convenient and stable to use. The thing which takes a lot of time - especially if you are a newbie like I am - is to look up the available tags for streets and POIs.
One thing I noticed that you can't get it perfect on the first try. 
There are just too many details you would have to remember (or write down). But fortunately OpenStreetMap is a community project so everybody can add additional information or make changes to the map. There are still a lot of tracks missing around Glems so there is a lot of fun work to do.
