The northern reaches of the Cotswolds are lovely and picturesque, but they're sorely under-mapped in OSM. To address this, I've decided to try and complete one each day for a few days this month using OS StreetView data and ITO's wonderful OS Locator layer. Primary focus will be the major waterways, roads completeness and expanding the POI coverage in the area. So one village a day, along with anything else important in the bbox given me by JOSM's "area near" downloader tab.

Today's C.V.a.D. is South Newington, with nearby Milcombe as a bonus village. The River Swere extends W to E through this area, but I've left the more minor streams and field drains alone this time.

Doing armchair mapping this way requires two passes: the first to get the basic shape right using OS StreetView (and correlating with NPE for further information), and a second pass a day or so after to correct street name extents and add ones OSSV misses using OS Locator.

(I know - armchair mapping sucks. I'm currently walking the Cross Cotswold Pathway from Banbury to bath over several Sundays this summer, so I at least get a bit of first-hand verification of the work I do on this. In particular I find that ways I'd previously recorded as "track" are frequently far better represented as service ways: so that now tends to be my interpretation of the grey/borderless OSSV ways)