More openstreetmapping of Limnos, Greece

It's only 4 weeks until our 2 weeks holiday on Limnos. I've made pretty good progress on mapping from the bing satellite images, the island is not empty anymore, but there is still plenty to do. The costline is still blocky in some places, not a big priority but goes with the beach mapping nicely.

I've started to draw forest (what little there are, not much), scrubs and farmlands also to get the island to look more "green", the default grey must be somekind of psychological way to get people to draw nature areas...

Some details:

• Wind power stations
• Myrina, still much to do on the ground. The satellite images aren't good enough to draw all streets as buildings shade too much.
• A very strict street layout, wonder what it is?
• Plaka
• Some building complex up the mountain area

But as you can see, there is still very much to do, plenty of tiny tracks and a lot of farmland to draw. And beaches as there are many of those all over Limnos.

Deciding on vacation destination and mapping the destination

Me and my gf finally decided where to go this summer, first the country and the final destination. We where to Parga, a nice little village in Greece, last summer and fell in love with greece. Friendly people, very good and cheap food, especially the sea food.

So, it was easy to decide on Greece for the country this year too. Then to pick the destination. After looking around in various (finnish) travel agencies we found Limnos (or Lemnos) (Λήμνος). Aurinkomatkat had a cheap 2 week package, but when we finally had decided, it had gone. But who cares about packages... so we just booked the flights EFHK-LGAV-LGLM-LGAV-EFHK from blue1 and now we are looking for somekind of hotel.

Anyway, I beeing an openstreetmapper (and semi-active geocacher) checked out the map of Limnos.. google maps sucks, bing sucks and openstreetmap sucked, but not anymore ! Thanks to the Bing satellite images available I've been tracing roads couple of hours per day now for almost month and it's starting to look like something now.

My target is to have every single road that I can see from the satellite images drawn before going, so I have about 3.5 months time to do it :)

Unfortunately there are only on geocache on the whole island.