I realised yesterday that there are even more footways between terraces in my area, as there were some I'd previously forgotten to cover. I needed to buy some dishwasher tablets today so I took a circuitous walk to the convenience store in order to get some mapping done on the way.

I took care of various paths, upgraded one to a service highway and I found an allotment site that I never knew was there! I was able to map the allotment using Yahoo imagery once I knew it was there; I'll go back and add in the access footways at the North and South ends using my GPS.

A few observations:
1) This is a fully mapped area, as far as "normal" streets are concerned, yet I've been able to contribute a lot of additional data to it, making it substantially more detailed. This should be heartening to contributors in already-mapped areas who are looking for something local to do.
2) Adding in (some of) the housing in the area has added quite a lot of value here, making it easier to spot where the (well hidden) pathways actually are when using the map. The housing data also helped me to line up the paths I'd mapped when the GPS reception was put off by the buildings.
3) Building style around housing areas seems to vary a lot. I've found loads of these footways in this area but a couple of streets down there are few or none of them.

Changes to this area are on the Osmarender layer now, Mapnik maps should show this data next week...