I spent some time on Monday evening adding lots of buildings in Winwick Quay and Gemini Business Park.

I also added various footpaths from around Great Sankey, and it got me thinking as to exactly where it's appropriate to add a footpath. In most villages/towns/cities, it's virtually a given that a road is accompanied by pavements at either side, so it's almost meaningless to add these footpaths.

But in a lot of new developments these days, it seems more and more fashionable to omit them. Certainly where I live, in Great Sankey Warrington, my estate forms part of what used to be the old Burtonwood Airforce base which is slowly being converted into new housing. A great deal of the new road system, mainly primary roads, simply don't have paths at the side. But shared footways/cycleways have been constructed, so it seems that they are significant and should be shown prominently on the map.

The confusion comes in the areas where cycle/footpaths converge onto a road, on both sides, creating a "grey area", and subsequent doubt. Just wondered what other people's thoughts are?