Went out on a longer range bicycle expedition with my usual buddy. We navigated there using OSM (which showed a helpful cycle path that enabled us to avoid an awkward choice of a large detour vs bicycling a dual carriageway - thanks OSM!).

The village had recently been traced in (main streets only), apparently from NPE maps. We were able to improve on the placing of the streets (GPS survey being more accurate that the NPE's data), add street names, postbox, telephone box, bus stops, the church, some missing streets, the beginnings of some footpaths / bridleways, pub, car park, recycling, war memorial. Basically almost everything we could see :-)

It wasn't very large so we were able to get complete coverage of the village itself without too much effort. There are a few more features that could benefit from future survey:

* The North-East road out of the village has a complicated junction with the A428, which the current data doesn't show in detail.

* There are a number of footways within the village that could be mapped.

* Footpaths / bridleways into / out of the village could be mapped.

* Bodies of water could be converted to areas, with a bit of effort.

* House numbers?

* Extent of the church yard area, which is a reasonably large proportion of the built area?

The basics are done but there's plenty more that could be tackled!

Still, it was quite satisfying to have a whole settlement to map and to be able to cover all of the major features in an hour or so and thoroughly map the place. We hope to tackle more of the smaller outlying villages around Cambridge in future as there are a fair few within our ranage that are unmapped.

NB: if you look at the current Mapnik render of Eltisley, it looks absolutely bonkers. The database dump seems to have somehow picked up the village mid way through my edits, even though I uploaded them all at once... The Osmarender layer looks fine and hopefully Mapnik will correct itself next week.