[OSM-talk] finding new stuff when mapping

[Nick Whitelegg]

A bit late to this thread but interesting things I've discovered:

- just how far it's possible to go on footpaths, following one path after 
another, with no, or minimal, road walking. 

- an appreciation that road layouts, even in residential areas, have changed 
over time. This evening (as you do on a Friday night) I was wandering round a 
Victorian terraced housing estate where all the roads were parallel and 
rather nicely curved. About 5 of the 7 parallel roads all linked to a 
straight road at the south end. The other two stopped short. But, walking 
around, you could tell that the two other roads used to continue on to the 
straight road before new (1960s) development was built over the top of them. 
The old course (confirmed by a glance at the NPE map of the area) is still 
evident in footways, and thus will be evident when it appears on OSM.

Nick