[OSM-talk] OSM data in Google Earth

[Nick Whitelegg]

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>The exception here being NPE - I've found it incredibly handy for
>mapping out suitably old housing estates. It just needs me to go and
>collect all the names now :-)

I've used NPE on one occasion to look up an urban road with a 
suspiciously-irregular GPX trace (my memory of the road was that it was 
straight) but where NPE really comes into its own arguably is country 
lanes. With urban roads you have to get the names anyway for the map to be 
useful, but country lanes often don't have a name - so, if you tend to 
focus your countryside mapping on footpaths, rather than roads, you can 
quickly get a useful map of the countryside without having to walk along 
all of the lanes.

Nick