​I moved to Caracaraí, Roraima, for work (the banking life) in the first half of 2025. It is a quiet town.

​By the end of the year, bothered by seeing that the city’s map on OpenStreetMap consisted merely of outdated streets, the City Hall, and the hospital, I decided to join OSM on December 29th.

​It is an Amazonian town of 20,000 inhabitants. The result of this first week is over 300 changesets trying to pull the city out of the void.

​All public amenities (that I can recall), such as schools, health centers, banks, etc., are mapped. And so far, half of the city’s buildings are already drawn (long live the Building Tool plugin!).

​Honestly, I don’t know who will care about detailed mapping here in the middle of nowhere, but I wanted to do it anyway.