Communications leader in a major organisation, photographer, writer. Former government surveyor and officer in council borough engineers department.

Currently mapping the A580 East Lancashire Road corridor house by house, mainly in the Wigan Borough area so far. I try to give addresses, building types, any relevant history and start date if known. I’ll also include useful local knowledge including verifiable information from people in and around the properties which I’m adding to the map. All my mapping is small scale and manual. I use iD editor after on site visits and surveys.

Thank you for suggestions and revisions received. I’m always keen to learn more. Can I echo some early advice I got about effective use of cadastral data: thanks.

Give me a shout!

If you are local to the Wigan/Leigh A580 area or if you’re working in areas where I’ve been out and about, I’d be delighted to say hello. Or if you are not local and reliant on aerial imagery - please give me a shout or message me with questions. A lot seems to have changed locally since the last satellite views we have.

I do sometimes reach out via messages to cross-reference things. Not everyone wants to reply but if you can respond, please do.

Much belated - I’ve adjusted my browser and now (finally) can see and resolve notes posted around areas I’m working on. Give me time and I’ll get round to check them, thank you.

Nice to be part of UK chats on Big Blue Button and at recent Geomobs. See you in London on 20th May.

Recent successes including finding and adding a residential road in Astley which is hundreds of years old and understanding the old land use influencing why there are gaps in modern housing developments. Also correcting many ‘spiky buildings’ labelled vaguely and giving them the correct specific housing tags and details.

ADVICE NEEDED: I’ve asked on various chat forums but please message me with a way to record detail on terraced houses. I map each property as an individual, numbered hereditament of course. But how to map the name of the whole terrace as it appears on a plaque usually in the middle of the row? It’s not the road name or an individual house name but this is valuable identification (and build date) information publicly displayed and people do use this to identify a locality.

Useful links:

• https://weeklyosm.eu/
• https://thegeomob.com/
• https://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/#loc=11/53.5159/-2.5516&item=xxxx&level=1%2C2
• https://www.doogal.co.uk/UKPostcodes?Search=WN
• https://simon04.dev.openstreetmap.org/whodidit/
• https://fieldpapers.org/compose#12/53.4971/-2.5394
• https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=11.5&lat=53.52583&lon=-2.40585&layers=270&b=ESRIWorld&o=100
• https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?no%20details%20provided%20here (my mapping stats)