In January, Slow Ways will launch its website, asking 10,000 people to help walk, verify and review the 7,000 routes that their 700 volunteers drafted digitally during the spring lockdown. The purpose of the project, says Raven-Ellison, “is to connect the places where most people are – so towns and cities – to where most people want to go to, which is towns and cities” via safe, direct and enjoyable routes. The country is criss-crossed with footpaths but, he says, “they largely go from countryside to countryside through countryside”. And there’s no comprehensive network: the current state of footpaths is, he says, “like a big pile of spaghetti”.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/dec/27/walk-this-way-army-of-hikers-will-road-test-new-map-of-footpaths