Re: [Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

2016-05-12 Thread Andy Townsend
On 12/05/2016 23:13, David Woolley wrote: They started their life being purely for private profit, got nationalised, then handed to a charity, but never got made public rights of way. It depends where you are, I think. Certainly the canal towpath nearest to me (Cromford Canal) is mostly

Re: [Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

2016-05-12 Thread David Woolley
On 12/05/16 12:30, Eric Grosso wrote: At the moment, the different tags (in link with this discussion) used for these ways are:highway=path, surface=paved, bicycle=designated, segregated=no, width=1.75, ncn_ref=754 (Tobi added yesterday a ncn_ref in addition to the associated relation). For

[Talk-GB] Interesting article: Strava data used by Bath city

2016-05-12 Thread Rob Nickerson
May be of interest to some: http://www.bathhacked.org/projects/bath-cycling/strava-metro-interacting-data/ *Rob* ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

[Talk-GB] OSMF looking for a part-time administrative assistant

2016-05-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, the OSMF would like to hire someone for part-time (max 2 days/week) work, helping with administrative tasks. Please see the detailed job posting here on the Wiki: http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Administrative_Assistant Since we're an UK organisation, having someone in the UK would

Re: [Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

2016-05-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Craig Wallace wrote: > Maybe the consensus in England. > In Scotland, where paths can be used on foot, bicycle, horse etc, > then highway=path makes sense. And that is how they are > generally tagged in OSM. Yes, access laws are indeed different in Scotland to England & Wales. However, the

Re: [Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

2016-05-12 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2016-05-11 06:44, Richard Fairhurst wrote: On 10/05/2016 20:59, Eric Grosso wrote: What do you think? Do we, OSM contributors, tag all the highways part of a NCN as cycleways? What to do when in some cases, a highway is both part of a NCN route and a hiking route (e.g the John Muir Way)?

Re: [Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

2016-05-12 Thread Eric Grosso
Thanks Chris, thanks Richard. If we take the example of the Union Canal Towpath (e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/222362355), it was originally a footway, upgraded (i.e. resurfaced) at several points in time (but a lot have been done in 2005-2006), so it became easier and easier for