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Posted by Mark Williamson on 31 August 2008 in English.

Spent a while (much more time than I intended!) tonight doing mapping around Cheltenham and Tewkesbury - the area in which I grew up!

I'm in Cambridge right now so I've been using a combination of the existing OSM coverage, NPE, Yahoo (the satellite imagery is of a very low resolution so it's not as helpful as I usually find it) and - to a large extent - my local knowledge from growing up there and from my later visits to see my parents. I've been able to add a load of POIs in the village of Prestbury. There are a fair number of new (since NPE) streets missing for this village and the Yahoo coverage isn't good enough to trace them. I'll have to take the GPS some time when I visit!

I've also added some place names and pubs between Bishop's Cleeve and Tewkesbury. I hope to be able to do a bit of more detailed mapping next time I'm in the area but I doubt I'll be able to do a huge amount. Makes a change to be working in another area, though.

Location: Prestbury, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
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