I've been wikifiddling again (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Brecon_Beacons) and am currently working on a boundary for the Brecon Beacons National Park. If anyone reading knows this area of Wales, please feel free to join in the fun!

I'm extremely impressed by the speed of the mapnik layer rendering recently. I just made some edits and they were rendered by the time I'd returned to the map, literally seconds after my changeset was closed.

This will be really good for the newbies as they won't get worried about their data not having been saved.

In 2000 the Government said that AONBs effectively had the same status as national parks. With this in mind I want to ensure that these beautiful parts of the country are represented in OSM. However there's no source for the AONB boundary.

I've begun adding the Cotswold AONB boundary from my own, slightly fuzzy, knowledge of where it lies. As an environmental campaigner I keep an eye on what's going on in local housing decisions. A few years ago Stroud District Council controversially approved Hunts Grove, a major development at Colethrop on the edge of Gloucester. This was allowed to go ahead but it was additionally controversial as the boundary of the AONB lies on Haresfield Lane.

From such cases I know where the boundary lies around the edge of Gloucester - but much beyond Stonehouse or Cheltenham I have no idea. With the Cotswolds being the largest of the AONBs, I really need help on this one.

That's why I'm taking advantage of this, my OSM user blog, to help get the word out a bit.

Anyone interested in adding bits of the Cotswolds AONB please see the Cotswolds page on the Wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cotswolds.