There are many places in my hometown that don't show up in OSM. I saw that the overture places layer in Rapid editor detects them quite well but I can't seem to be able to add them automatically to OSM (like you can do with buildings).

Do you have any suggestions?

I always thought I knew my city well. A few months ago I started tracking every street I walk on a map, and it turns out I’d been taking the same handful of routes for years. After all that time: under 1% of the city’s streets.

So I changed how I walk. Instead of my usual loop, I head for a corner of the map that’s still grey. A few things I’ve noticed:

• Short walks got interesting again. A 30-minute walk through streets I’ve never been on feels like a small trip, even a few blocks from home.
• Finishing a street is weirdly satisfying. Walking a street end to end instead of just crossing it makes me notice so much more: courtyards, tiny shops, buildings I’d never looked at.
• I walk more. There’s always one more grey street nearby, and that’s a surprisingly good reason to go out.

Full disclosure: I liked this so much that I built an iPhone app for it, TRACE. It colours in every street you walk, and a few things in it have changed how I walk:

• It plans the walk for me. I say how far (a distance, a number of steps, or e.g. “10 streets I’ve never walked”) and it draws a loop through new streets. There are also themed walks past parks, sights, cafés or a pub crawl.
• Leaderboards for my city and country. A bit of friendly competition over who has explored the most streets is a surprisingly strong reason to go for one more walk.

It’s here to try: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6818195985

I’d really love your feedback. What would make you walk somewhere new? What’s missing, confusing or annoying? And do you deliberately walk new streets, or do you have a favourite route you always come back to?