Dr. Uy Hoang made it his mission to upload streets that Google Maps can't track. (Tony Kershaw via SWNS)

By Jack Fifield

Meet the man mapping Britain for Google - on foot.

Dr. Uy Hoang, 51, decided to act after realizing he couldn’t see his local town path online and now he is single-handedly mapping Britain's waterways as a hobby.

He has taken a staggering 300,000 snaps and uploaded them to the online mapping service - making him the most prolific contributor in Britain and ninth in the world, he says.

Starting in 2015, he has spent the last 10 years covering the nation's rivers and canals - walking an estimated 1,600 miles.

Uy, from London, says he’s covered at least 75% of the nation's canal network so far.

He spends eight to ten hours a day walking with his $1,000 Insta360 cam

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