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, from on site visits and surveys, mainly in the Wigan Borough area so far. I try to give addresses, building types, any relevant history or 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.

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!

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.

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

Nice to be part of UK chats on Big Blue Button and at recent Geomobs. Good to see some of you at the (wet) London gathering in October.

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.