Re: [Talk-GB] How to work with Government Open Data (e.g. Boundaries, Rights of Way)

2012-06-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
What I wouldn't personally like is a mess where the Hampshire ROW line *and* the line on the ground are *both* in OSM. This would make the data messy and confusing to work with. In cases like this maybe the ROW has, to all intents and purposes, shifted and the Hampshire data is out-of-date.

[Talk-GB] Working with the HCC rights of way data

2012-06-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, As promised I've put together a summary blog post on how I produced OpenHants (simple site overlying the Hampshire rights-of-way data on a kothic-js based OSM map), this can be found at: http://www.free-map.org.uk/wordpress/?p=247 Nick ___

Re: [Talk-GB] How to work with Government Open Data (e.g. Boundaries, Rights of Way)

2012-06-16 Thread rob . j . nickerson
Hi Nick, I agree that we don't want to take Hants data at face value and load this into OSM where a path is already mapped. I have added my answers below: Q1. Hampshire marked footpath and OSM footpath run very close to each other (deviating by only a few meters max). No obvious marking on