[Talk-GB] Permissive paths and uncrecorded rights of way

[New here (to OSM, not to mapping), so I'm not sure if I'm making this point in the right way or the right place. It's effectively a comment on the UK wiki changes, but I can't see how to reply to that thread.] It's been bothering me for a while that there is a gap in tagging guidelines relating

Re: [Talk-GB] Permissive paths and uncrecorded rights of way

Hi, If there is a path on the ground but nothing to say it is a public footpath etc, I just tag it as highway=path with no designation. Graham On 26 Apr 2012 16:29, cotswolds mapper osmcotswo...@gmail.com wrote: [New here (to OSM, not to mapping), so I'm not sure if I'm making this point in the

Re: [Talk-GB] Permissive paths and uncrecorded rights of way

I have used suspected=orpa for one or two of these in Hampshire. By doing this you're not stating it's a right of way, but on the other hand you are adding additional information which means it's *more likely to be* a right of way than a random path through private land used as an informal

Re: [Talk-GB] Permissive paths and uncrecorded rights of way

On 26 April 2012 16:28, cotswolds mapper osmcotswo...@gmail.com wrote: It's been bothering me for a while that there is a gap in tagging guidelines relating to well-used (and possibly long-standing) paths that are not official rights of way.  Certainly a newcomer reading the guidelines could

[Talk-GB] Using UK v GB for uk speed limit tags

Just in the process of adding some speed limits and went to the wiki to clarify tagging. UK speed limits commonly had a source:maxspeed tag, which contained UK, eg source:maxspeed=UK:motorway. Wiki page was recently changed and advised using GB eg source:maxspeed=GB:motorway The change notes

[Talk-GB] Unsual highway= values

Hi there, maybe you're interested inThe file below shows ways with an unusual highway= value. This could be highway=byway_open_to_all_traffic, highway=footway;track or highway=serviec...things like that...usually not detected by other QA tools. Unsual is defined here as a highway=value

[Talk-GB] Problematical rural edits across England

I'm wondering what is the best approach to take with a relatively recent contributor to OpenStreetMap. Since joining they've made a large number of edits geographically spread across England. Unfortunately, most of these edits seem at odds with previous on-the-ground surveys. Examples of