Many years ago I started dabbling with @openstreetmap. It's a user generated map so I set about mapping my corner of town. I had twin aims: accuracy and detail. That fact that it looked cool also motivated me.

Focussing on my hosing estate , I mapped out all the individual buildings and added their address data. I went on to trace out their gardens and body fences. Yeah, it started to look cool.

But it's slog work. Quickly adding the addresses to a street of houses shouldn't take long. But often two or more houses will have been traced as one, so I'd have to spend the time redrawing the properties before I could address them.

Progress was intermittent. But with my workplace still closed and time on my hands, I got back into it. Initially I worked on landuse. This isn't an obvious feature of the map. It's a lower level detail that specifies what land is residential, commercial, golf course etc.

While doing this, I discovered that you can add data that allowed a 3D rendering of the map, and I headed off down that rabbit hole.

I returned to mapping my house, my estate. Learning the techniques, the limitations, and how to push both. Oh, and I became obsessed with it.

With much of Copmanthorpe still not mapped in detail, I now had the motivation to return to the slog task of accurately drawing all the properties and addressing them. My bike rides were now including diversions to check out the details.

Every bloody house, on every last street, mapped and numbered. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/53.91700/-1.14041

While doing this I was adding the 3D data. building:matterial, building:colour, height, roof:type, roof:colour, roof height... between 6 or 10 fields. Slog slog slog.

But over 10 days I got there. The main part of Copmanthorpe is now mapped in 3D. When viewed in @OSMBuildings it looks very cool. https://osmbuildings.org/?lat=53.91602&lon=-1.14132&zoom=18.2&tilt=34&rotation=173