Mapping in Sheffield mostly (the one in South Yorkshire, UK). Other places include areas that have whisky distilleries, canoe-able rivers or lochs and hillwalking areas. I mainly use StreetComplete for edits, on a very old slate with no direct internet connection. I usually attend the ‘Geeks in the Pub’ monthly meet-ups in Sheffield and am on Mastodon, where I follow some of the various OSM contributors around the World. I also attend ElectroMagneticField occasionally. Starting in October 2026, we have a local Sheffield OSM group, meeting monthly, on the first Tuesday of the month in the Rutland Arms on Brown Street, close to Sheffield rail station.

Grisedale Tarn is in the Lake district, below Helvellyn, where, as a teenager, I first learnt something about practical surveying and mapping with the Brathay Exploration Group.

I attended the Birmingham State of the Map in 2013 and used to be a paid-up and voting member of OSM but stopped when the voting system wouldn’t play nicely with my security software - ‘No taxation without representation’.