[Talk-GB] Resurrecting the 'find the missing paths for 2026' project

2019-10-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
David wrote: >In other threads, I sense quite a strong lobby for only mapping rights of way that are so marked on the ground and ignoring any designation that only appears in a map. That's news to me! Given that you say "strong" I must assume that you refer to something other than talk-gb(?).

Re: [Talk-GB] Resurrecting the 'find the missing paths for 2026' project

2019-10-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
The main aim, though, of this project is to investigate, using the historical maps, historical rights of way for the point of view of gathering evidence to re-open them before 2026. A possible side-effect of this is to locate new paths to map for OSM. Such paths would not, of course, be

Re: [Talk-GB] Resurrecting the 'find the missing paths for 2026' project

2019-10-01 Thread David Woolley
On 30/09/2019 18:25, Nick Whitelegg wrote: I made a start on this about a year ago, here's a quck mock-up showing council data in colours and OSM paths shown in white as a 'tippex' effect. This allows the identification of historical 'F.P' footpaths on the historical maps which do not

Re: [Talk-GB] Resurrecting the 'find the missing paths for 2026' project

2019-10-01 Thread Philip Barnes
See https://www.ramblers.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-us/dont-lose-your-way-2026.aspx https://www.oss.org.uk/what-do-we-fight-for/footpaths-rights-of-way/the-deregulation-act/ Historically we have been able to claim lost rights of way by providing user evidence and have them added to the