Hi Sanderd17, thanks for the comment! The reason I’m making diary entries is so other mappers can see my intent and make suggestions, as I’m new to this.

I’m already tracing on known walkways using the background images, for footpaths in the area. I decided it was too tricky for that particular area - trees block the aerial view, some of the footpaths are now restricted by gated access, some paths have steps, and so on! As I want the paths to be useful for walking routes and disabled access (and some exercise doesn’t go amiss) I thought physically walking it would be the best approach.

As for the node you mentioned; it’s a tricky one! For the footpaths to be used for walking routes they have to link to roads at some point. But I don’t want to create loads of unnecessary nodes. I wouldn’t normally add a footpath that runs parallel to a road; I did in this case because there are so many other paths that run off it, and I didn’t want to clutter the road with footpath junctions.

Anyway, I’ve redrawn that whole path now :-)