I began documenting Delhi’s mapping of bus routes on the wiki, so that others can join the effort.

Bus 427 became the first route to be completely surveyed by traveling. 764 became the second.

A new workflow evolved -

1. First, I learned about creating local notes in OsmAnd
2. Then came the knowledge of OsmAnd’s ability to export them to a GPX file. This lets me open my OsmAnd notes in JOSM.
3. Then came JOSM’s “Convert to data layer” (right-click on a GPX layer -> Convert to data layer). [1] This makes a data layer with one node for each note. The text is in a note= tag.
4. And today I got the idea to convert the note= tags to name= tags (select all the ‘note’ nodes with Ctrl-A, double-click on the note= tag, and change the key from ‘note’ to ‘name’) to be able to see all the note text while editing. Sweet!

Editing this way in JOSM also allows me to see the notes sorted alphabetically. Double-click the note/name field, click the arrow for the drop-down menu, and tada! I haven’t yet put it to this use, but I’m excited at the prospect of it letting me concentrate my edits to a single route when working with bus sightings.

[1] Ooooh. As I wrote this, I discovered that you can also “Download from OSM along this track” and “Precache imagery tiles along this track”. Faaaaaancy!