The main problem with the wiki page is that it didn't distinguish between an
official public footpath and a way which is there on the ground, but has no
known
designation or right of way status. (Or else the page just didn't cover that
case, even though it is by far the most common.)
Again this
Nick Whitelegg Nick.Whitelegg@... writes:
The main problem with the wiki page is that it didn't distinguish between
an official public footpath and a way which is there on the ground, but has no
known designation or right of way status.
my usual approach to the above is to tag with
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
I was thinking of cities. There are all sorts
of paths between buildings, pedestrian shortcuts, even walkways inside
shopping
centres and so on.
I believe these should be tagged as highway=footway and should not have any
Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxford@... writes:
There are all sorts
of paths between buildings, pedestrian shortcuts, even walkways inside
shopping
centres and so on.
As per my original post, I think the wiki ought to record the dominant
usage. I think plain highway=footway is dominant for
Following Steve's happy email about Enfield, we now have Southwark up to
100% accuracy against OS Locator with 56 (!) discrepancies identified in the
OS data, compared to 9 in Enfield.
We're also plowing ahead with buildings, and have perhaps 1/2 to 2/3rds of
the borough's buildings now traced,
The Cabinet Office's Office for Civil Society has just published a report
citing international examples of The Big Society. Case study number 1 is
OpenStreetMap:
http://www.arnaudriegert.com/wp-content/uploads/international-examples-big-society.pdf
Cheers
David
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On Wednesday 02 March 2011, davespod wrote:
The Cabinet Office's Office for Civil Society has just published a report
citing international examples of The Big Society. Case study number 1 is
OpenStreetMap:
http://www.arnaudriegert.com/wp-content/uploads/international-examples-big-society.pdf
On 01/03/2011 13:31, Richard Mann wrote:
A new page seems to have appeared on the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Tagging_Guidelines
This states a preference for highway=path+foot=designated over
highway=footway (etc).
I don't remember this being discussed or agreed,
On 01/03/2011 17:55, Andrew wrote:
The great strength of OSM is that it can be a platform for many (and hopefully
more to come) applications written by people all round the world.
Country-specific tagging guidelines make it more difficult to share applications
with the rest of the world.
Well done to all those who finished off the road network in Southwark. I was
drawn into OSM when searching for a mapping solution in the far south of
Southwark, and it's brilliant to see how things have come along.
Tom, I've noticed you've added a large number of trees with species details
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