Recently had some fun micromapping Pillar Falls in Idaho's Snake River Canyon. Featuring dramatic basalt pillars, this falls runs over exposed bedrock much of the year (intermittent=yes in OpenStreetMap terms). This makes for a popular local hangout spot and an interesting place to map

Back when I worked on iD (the default OpenStreetMap editor) I designed over 270 bespoke map icons to illustrate various feature types. These are free and open source.

A guided gallery of my icon work is now available on my portfolio: waysidemapping.org/projects/id-...

Last summer I imported 16,000+ USGS gaging stations into OpenStreetMap. Not content with a one-time import, I built a tool to keep the data up-to-date going forward.

I've published a writeup of the project over on my portfolio: waysidemapping.org/projects/usg...

I've finished mapping Utah's Jordan River Water Trail in OpenStreetMap. Paddlers can follows this well-developed, 51-mile paddle route through the Wasatch Front from Utah Lake to the edge of the Great Salt Lake.

Browse the data in OpenTrailMap:
opentrailmap.us#map=8.79/40....

Saddened to hear about the destruction of the Grand Canyon Lodge on the North Rim last month. I was lucky to visit in July 2021, four years and five days before it burned down. I happened to snap a few offhand shots of the structure, now available in the public domain over on Wikimedia Commons.