Took another trip out to Somersham yesterday, this time with a cycling buddy for company. We managed to take care of some more residential streets in the village although I'm aware there are still a few left to do: some off Parkhall Road and possibly some to the west down the St Ives road (there's a service road to the business park that needs doing, also).

The thing which was particularly surprising on this trip was the network of drove roads to the north of the village. There are quite a lot of them, running across a large area of the countryside. A few were marked private and we didn't follow them, however there were plenty that appeared to be rights of way. There is more surveying left to do up there but I didn't have time to stub all of the paths as I usually try to. There were also several wind farms out there that I wasn't aware of. We came back down the Chatteris Road (B1050), enabling us to fill out more of its length with accurate GPS traces. On a future trip, I'd like to go all the way to Chatteris and finish this part off.

We were able to fill in a lot of local detail in Somersham this time, including memorials, pubs, the pathways in the churchyard, etc. Hopefully by the time the mapping of the road network is completed, we'll also have a decent amount of local detail that might be interesting to cyclists, pedestrians, hikers, etc. I've been considering the idea of e-mailing village councils / village webmasters to say "You have been mapped", since they might be interested in being able to use OSM maps for local purposes rather than having to pay for some "official" maps. Has anyone tried this?