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Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] foot=permissive in 'paid for' attractions?
On 22/05/16 14:55, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>
> Just noticed two local 'paid-for' attractions, namely Hillier Gardens
> and Mottisfont, both just outside Romsey, have had their paths tagged
> for foot=perm
Hi,
Just wondered what current thinking was on this.
Also apologies if this has come up before, I have a vague feeling it did but
some time ago.
Just noticed two local 'paid-for' attractions, namely Hillier Gardens and
Mottisfont, both just outside Romsey, have had their paths tagged for
One thought I've had for a long time (and have probably mentioned in the past)
is a walkers' editor (app rather than web-based). To be used something like:
User goes for walk and records GPX trace, following this sort of pattern.
Each time the type of right of way changes, the user selects a
Hello Dudley,
Not sure if it's standard but I use either "designation=orpa" if there's
explicit evidence of it being one, or "suspected=orpa" if there isn't (e.g. a
'green lane' which is unsignposted but has evidence of regular foot/horse use).
Nick
From:
Hi,
Not sure if there's any discussion on the technical side of the UK OSM project
yet but, while I might have little time for the organisational side of things,
I'd be keen to be involved on the developer side if possible, particularly if
we go for a PHP-based backend and javascript
Hi,
Was wondering whether people in the Hampshire area (including neighbouring
counties) would be up for a monthly regular OSM meet? London, the Midlands and
Nottingham all do well in this respect but might be good to have one in this
area.
Basically Hampshire, south-east Wiltshire, west
Yes, it's been a number of years! Think the last one was Wales wasn't it in
2008... which I missed due to being on holiday.
Would be really good to have another but definitely (as I said before) in the
lighter months of the year.
Nick
From: Steve
Well IoW is obviously easier for me but a) I suspect I'm in a minority there
and b) to be quite honest it looks pretty much complete from the POV of ROWs.
Rutland would also be somewhere new for me so would be potentially interested.
However my preference would be not to have it in October
Hi,
FWIW I have developed an app (OpenTrail) which provides offline maps for UK
walkers (actually only England for now) showing ROWs in the same colour scheme
as Freemap, using Mapsforge. The designation tag is used to render the footpaths
It's not necessarily slick enough to be an official
I agree; I don't really see what harm a UK group would have; after all, there
are local OSM groups in other countries, so why not here?
No-one's being asked to stump up money for servers etc just yet; it's just an
initial survey.
Nick
From: Chris Hill
As an aside... I can kind of understand why people get grumpy about the
pre-1971 (?) counties now. While I grew up with the post-1971 counties and are
thoroughly used to them, so things like Avon et al never bothered me, while
things like Middlesex seem antiquated... I now get grumpy about
Hi,
A related point - which comes up for me when surveying quite a bit.
I know this has come up many times before but the results have always been
inconclusive; would anyone official be able to give guidance here? (i.e. I'm
not looking for a debate, but a yes or no from the appropriate
Do Google know something we don't?
Just noticed a new city called Avon somewhere between Swindon and Bath. Bug or
secret new city only Google are party to? ;-)
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6066769,-2.1135816,8z
So while it's a place, for some reason iGoogle seem to think it's as big as
Bath and Swindon!
A search for Avon new town doesn't seem to reveal anything though, so
presumably not a new town site?
Nick
From: Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk
Sent: 07
Sorry just seen some of the other replies.
Could be something to do with Avon but that doesn't seem to exist as a
ceremonal county:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England
From: Nick Whitelegg
Sent: 07 December 2014 13:53
To: talk-gb
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If you've signed up but can't login , try now.
Thanks,
Nick
From: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk
Sent: 06 December 2014 20:03
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-GB] Signup bug corrected (Re: Update to Freemap)
Hi,
Sorry - a couple
Hello everyone,
Would just like to announce an update to Freemap, my site for showing
walking-orientated maps of OSM data in England and Wales
(http://www.free-map.org.uk).
It's still using Kothic JS as it has been for some time now, but now uses
Leaflet.draw for adding annotations and
Oops... just noticed a somewhat inaccurate statement.Just to clarify:
also do note that the use of client side rendering can mean that the maps can
be slow to render if you haven't visited that area before.
This isn't actually due to the client-side rendering, it's due to the process
of
Hi,
Sorry - a couple of people pointed out an error in the sign up link, which I
thought I'd removed.
If you were having problems signing up, try again now - it should work.
Thanks,
Nick
From: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk
Sent: 06 December
I can recite a few of them. We have very little mobile presence, even
though smartphones are ideal surveying devices; a 5% intervention here
would bring so many more people to our 95%.
Interesting points. I'd hope most of us, though, remain idealistic beyond our
20s and don't turn into some
Anyone interested?
I'd propose somewhere reasonably easy to get to like Guildford, Southampton,
Portsmouth or Winchester.
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Anyone interested?
I'd propose somewhere reasonably easy to get to like Guildford, Southampton,
Portsmouth or Winchester.
Nick
Sorry, this would be on the actual day btw. August 9th.
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I've never really known what they're called - but I'd have probably said
lifebuoy of all the terms so far.
And that's from someone who doesn't particularly adopt Americanisms.
Nick
-Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: -
To: Barnett, Phillip phillip.barn...@itn.co.uk
One thing that surprised me was 61 miles from a lighthouse as (and I don't
know this) I'd have guessed that some of the central parts of England would be
getting on for 100 miles from the sea.
But my geography of that part of the world isn't great so I'm probably wrong...
Nick
-Craig
charity with no legal control over
Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.
On 12 June 2014 11:12, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote:
One thing that surprised me was 61 miles from a lighthouse as (and I don't
know this) I'd have guessed that some of the central parts of England
inland a fair
bit.
Nick
-Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: -
To: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk
From: Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk
Date: 12/06/2014 11:34AM
Cc: Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB
Nice. Glad to know that there are some people who think that going onto private
land is a bigger wrong than wantonly destroying native wildlife!
Nick
-SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote: -
To: Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net
From: SK53 sk53@gmail.com
Date: 07/03/2014 12:04PM
Cc: Talk GB
Hi,
Have noticed here in the UK an increasing tendency to tag polygons rather than
points with the POI tags e.g. amenity=pub, railway=station.
This is good for many uses, however in some use cases (e.g. my own, I have a
need to populate a database with POIs as point features) it can cause
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To: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk
From: Dan S
Sent by: danstow...@gmail.com
Date: 26/01/2014 10:14AM
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] POI features: node vs way?
Hi -
Definitely you should _not_ tag both the polygon and a node. That
creates two objects, and many systems will then think
seeing as I've always tagged POIs as point features, though, it's not been
something I've had to deal with until now when I've noticed a few point
features converted to areas.
Sorry, mapped POIs as point features I meant.
Anyway, I guess the best way to do it is via the scripting capabilities
The osmconvert has the ability to turn all the areas and ways to single nodes:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmconvert
Shaun
OK thanks. Funny when you've been working with OSM for a long time you actually
get out of the loop because you keep doing things the old ways you've always
done
FWIW I have certainly had confirmation, more than once, that the someone else
i.e Hampshire County Council agree and they appear to have got confirmation
from the OS too.
This is an OpenData licence set.
I think some unambiguous consensus on this needs to be made clear by the OSMF
or whoever
Not sure that having a right-wing think tank sanction us is particularly good
though! ;-)
Nick
-Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: -
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
From: Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com
Date: 17/01/2014 01:07PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OSM in Linux Format
OK just read it properly... turns out they're not particularly sanctioning us
as it happens - just having a go at the Guardian which I suppose is par for the
course for the likes of the Adam Smith Institute.
-Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: -
To: talk-gb
To update on this: some unforeseen problems occurred with the upgrade,
possibly because this is about the 6th OS upgrade that I've done over the
lifetime of the server and little errors have mounted up.
So, I've done a complete wipe and re-install of the VM. Due to it being
nearly
-
Further update: Freemap itself is now back up. However the rendering will
initially be very slow as the caches (OSM and contour) need to be regenerated.
Mountainous areas are likely to be initially particularly slow due to the
large number of contours.
FixMyPaths and opentrailview are
on their mind!
BTW has anyone had experiences with Bytemark's Big V VMs? They seem to offer
higher spec VMs for lower cost than their standard VMs.
Nick
-Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: -
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
From: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk
Date: 18
Hello everyone,
Just a quick warning: the Freemap server will have its OS upgraded tomorrow
19/12/13 from around 9am.
This means that Freemap, FixMyPaths and OpenTrailView will be unavailable for a
time tomorrow.
It will also mean that the OpenTrail and Hikar apps will be unable to fetch
data
Hi,
For the last couple of years just after the new year I've gone away for 3 days
or so to upland areas of the north of England or north Wales (two years ago,
Llangollen area, last year was Kettlewell area in the Dales).
Would like to do the same again this year and ideally combine it with
; are
these artifacts of the rendering or intentional? They can look a bit
like water here, especially near coastlines where there may already be
ditches, etc nearby.
Note that I've not played with the features other than the base map yet.
Cheers,
--
Neil
On 12 December 2013 00:34, Nick
tony.wroblew...@gmail.com wrote: -
To: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk
From: tony wroblewski tony.wroblew...@gmail.com
Date: 12/12/2013 06:26PM
Cc: Neil Pilgrim osm-talk...@kepier.clara.net, talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Freemap - experimentally expanding to cover
For around £25 a month I get quite a decent server but even still, I
am constrained to only offering data for selected areas of the UK
(much of England away from the urban areas, and all of Wales).
What sort of spec machine are we taking about for a GB extract?
The main problem is less the
You should keep in mind the dev server (errol), both for running
whatever you want to and when planning additional resources if you need
them. You can find information on the dev server at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_the_dev_server.
Hello Paul,
If I could use the dev server for
Hi,
This idea was suggested by another attendee at SOTM this year but I think it
would definitely be a good idea from my own experiences.
To my mind, the biggest barrier to hobbyist, not-for-profit developers wishing
to set up OSM-related web projects (apart from time, of course) is, and
For around £25 a month I get quite a decent server but even still, I
am constrained to only offering data for selected areas of the UK
(much of England away from the urban areas, and all of Wales).
What sort of spec machine are we taking about for a GB extract?
The main problem is less the
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From: Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com
Date: 05/12/2013 12:20PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Hants CC - Open Government Licence use of data
On 4 December 2013 11:45, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote:
Re the HCC data I have had
Hi,
Firstly Apologies for the top posting - it's the limitation of the mail client.
Re the HCC data I have had this communication from Dan at HCC.
Hi Nick,
I have been in comms with my contact at OS and the feedback I have had is
that ODBL and OS Open Licence can work together. As long as
Another approach which I've taken is to use suspected=orpa (orpa = Other
route with public access, otherwise known as green lane or former road which
has degraded into a path due to lack of motor use).
This is when something looks like a right of way, particularly a byway (e.g.
continuous
I make no apologies for the style of messaging. I've been doing it for over 15
years and I'm just happy with emphasis where it is shouting out in my head.
It's
a bit like those people who insist in top posting on lists were the written
rule
is not to :)
As an aside it doesn't help that many
Hi,
You may remember a talk I gave in SOTM Girona in 2010 on the OpenTrailView
project. The idea of this project was to produce something similar to Google
Street View but for off road routes such as footpaths. However, the procedure
to contribute was long-winded, involving taking panoramic
Absolutely. And IMO it's a good thing too as the most fun part of mapping for
me has always been surveying using a GPS and creating new paths and tracks from
the trace. Trouble is I'm having to go 30 or 40 miles from home these days to
find anywhere new to map! ;-)
-Philip Barnes
The only person being rude is sk53 by attempting to hi-jack a thread
with an irrelevant post on a completely different subject. His rudeness
is only reinforced by his inaccurate comments which he is unwilling to
justify.
It's disappointing that many people within OSM like sk53 are too weak to
Don't know if you can do that on hills too?
If there's an unnamed hill somewhere I'll call it Proprietary Peak and charge
people one million pounds to use it. ;-)
Nick
-Jonathan bigfatfro...@gmail.com wrote: -
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
From: Jonathan bigfatfro...@gmail.com
Date:
Also a reference number, e.g PKF 14. This seems to be the ref of the line
(e.g PKF) plus the sequential number of the pylon.
Nick
-Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: -
To: TalkGB MLtalk-gb@openstreetmap.org
From: Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk
Date: 13/10/2013 07:25PM
Subject: Re:
They used to be simple, now they're somewhat more complex thanks to unitary
authorities.
Prior to sometime in the nineties, we used to have the countries (England,
Scotland, Wales) separated into counties (e.g. Hampshire, West Sussex etc) or
metropolitan counties (Greater London, Greater
... and to confuse things further, only a minority of areas have unitary
authorities (typically but not exclusively mid-sized cities), the rest of the
country still has the county/district system. An illogical mess I know!
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Hi,
This is just a preliminary see if there's enough interest message really; I'm
not even sure if I can do it in the near future but if there is enough interest
I'll see if I can make time.
Was thinking of running part 3 of an annual series of footpath parties in SW
Surrey to fill in the
I have a contact from Hants who is wanting to resolve the issue regarding
whether or not county council open data can be used in OSM.
He's keen to see it used, but I'm personally not sure whether it can or not
based on the differing opinions on the mailing list.
I have, however, personally
So to dial Portsmouth from Southampton you need only do 92xx ? Not tried it.
Really, to make 023 a Solent area code though in any meaningful sense, you
need Fareham, Gosport, Hedge End, Whiteley etc to all be in the 023 area.
Nick
-Andy Street m...@andystreet.me.uk wrote: -
To:
The best way IMO to make changes to ROWs available would be fully open system
with a database and public API where a map provider could receive a list of
updates from given local authorities in a format such as XML or JSON. In turn
local authorities could send updates via the API.
That way
Hi,
I'm aiming to submit a couple of presentation ideas before the end of tomorrow
and have written up a couple of submissions.
However one - perhaps the most interesting - isn't directly OSM related, though
it is focused on open council data.
The idea is FixMyPaths - a nationwide footpath
Hi,
Just wondering what the current state of what we can do with the UK council
footpath open data is?
Generally I don't just copy the data into OSM anyway: it's more fun to survey
:-)
However I'm wondering whether we can do this?
1. Use the council data to verify whether a footpath surveyed
it
looks like I'll have to chop that one out.
Nick
-sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com wrote: -
To: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk
From: sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com
Date: 06/06/2013 10:59AM
Cc: Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org talk-gb@openstreetmap.org,
legal-t...@openstreetmap.org
Subject
Hi,
Has anyone ever encountered GPS reception problems in the Warminster area of
Wiltshire?
I was having a hell of a problem on Sunday with reception, the slightest
obstruction to the sky was causing reception to be very poor or non existent
with very good reception only on top of a sizable
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I would insist on your rights anyway ;-)
Neighbours aren't necessarily friends! (speaking from experience lol)
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From: sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com
Date: 30/05/2013 09:06AM
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB]
Thanks for the replies on this. Agree that routing is difficult if there isn't
a node to represent where a city actually is.
-Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: -
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From: Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net
Date: 28/04/2013 12:53PM
Subject: Re:
Any reason why these seem to have disappeared or is it just an incorrect edit?
If it's just a mistake I'll add Rydal Water back later, whether I have the time
to do Windermere is another matter though unfortunately...
Thanks,
Nick
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1. Didn't appear on Freemap when I updated the data earlier today (first update
since the 64-bit ID issue in Feb)
2. Went onto Potlatch and the natural=water polygon seemed to be missing in
both cases.
Other lakes in the Lake District all ok.
-Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: -
From: Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com
To: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk
Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Sunday, 24 March 2013, 11:49
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Windermere and Rydal Water - missing
On 24/03/2013 11:38, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
1. Didn't appear
with what I have done, let me know - there are always
subtleties of these things to be learnt.
Roger
On 24/03/2013 10:47, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Any reason why these seem to have disappeared or is it just an incorrect edit?
If it's just a mistake I'll add Rydal Water back later, whether I have
This may be a matter of style but it seems that both Highway=Service and
Highway=Track are used for the access highways to farms and also residential
properties in rural areas. I must admit I was using High=Track based on
whether it was paved (tarmac) or not. i.e. tarmac would suggest
Oops - highway=service, not surface...
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To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
From: Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent
Date: 12/03/2013 11:46AM
Subject: Re: Re: [Talk-GB] Highways Leading to Farms and single residential
properties in rural areas
This may be a matter
On 11/02/2013 12:59, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Hi,
Alongside Freemap (free-map.org.uk)
I can't see Bath or Bristol. Is it just me or is there a specific reason?
Cheers
Dave F.
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Hi,
Alongside Freemap (free-map.org.uk) I've been developing an Android app -
OpenTrail - which basically aims to be Freemap for walkers.
This is now feature complete enough for me to consider it ready for use, though
note it's still in a beta state and thus there may be bugs.
If you're
natural=coastline in blue.
Nick
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To: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk
From: Kevin Peat
Sent by: fortyfive...@gmail.com
Date: 11/02/2013 02:46PM
Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OpenTrail - Freemap for Android
Hi Nick,
On 11
Hello everyone,
Related to another thread: has anyone got a (can be old) version of
processed_p.shp which is known to be more or less free of bugs/defects for the
whole of the England/Wales coastline?
Reason being I have some odd flooding artefacts on Freemap (mostly in N
Wales) which were
2013, at 14:34, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Not entirely tangential question - Is there any chance that the designation
tag will be rendered in the default mapnik anytime soon / ever? Or is there
somewhere that already exists that renders designations?
Yes - www.free-map.org.uk. (at least for southern
Sorry - to follow that up, contours aren't available for the whole of the area.
I'll try and sort this out but might be some time as I don't have the files to
hand.
Nick
-Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: -
To: Adam Hoyle adam.li...@dotankstudios.com
From: Nick
Not entirely tangential question - Is there any chance that the designation
tag will be rendered in the default mapnik anytime soon / ever? Or is
there somewhere that already exists that renders designations?
Yes - www.free-map.org.uk. (at least for southern and northern England and
Wales)
Not entirely tangential question - Is there any chance that the designation
tag will be rendered in the default mapnik anytime soon / ever? Or is there
somewhere that already exists that renders designations?
Yes - www.free-map.org.uk. (at least for southern and northern England and
Wales)
afternoon Jan 4th... so
would anyone be interested in doing some mapping on those days?
Can't make the weekend unfortunately due to other commitments.
Nick
-Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: -
To: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk
From: Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz
Date: 17
Hi,
Am thinking of getting away for 2 or 3 days early in the new year (1st-4th Jan)
to somewhere hilly in the north of England within easy reach (by train/bus) of
the Manchester area I haven't been to very often before, which would mean the
Dales or the Forest of Bowland. Anyone from that
-Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent wrote: -
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
From: Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent
Date: 30/11/2012 12:11AM
Cc: Cooper Dan dan.coo...@hants.gov.uk
Subject: FixMyPaths - Hampshire rights of way problem reporting app - now
available for testing
Hi,
I mentioned a couple of weeks
Hi,
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I have developed FixMyPaths (formerly
OpenHants) an initial prototype version of an Android app to report problems
on Hampshire rights of way directly
to the council (as well as storing it in my own database, accessible via a web
service). Currently
As you probably know, Hampshire County Council released its rights of way data
in the summer.
I have been developing a site (OpenHants, www.free-map.org.uk/openhants) which
makes use of this data and also allows users to report path problems, which
are sent on to the council.
Sorry, there
Hi,
As you probably know, Hampshire County Council released its rights of way data
in the summer. I have been developing a site (OpenHants,
www.free-map.org.uk/openhants) which makes use of this data and also allows
users to report path problems, which are sent on to the council.
I have also
Hi,
Further to this party that I have advised about on the mailing list, there is
now a wiki page and cake with the details:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cranleigh_Footpaths_Party
Can I also ask if anyone planning on coming will have a car and is willing to
store a laptop in it? Reason
Hi,
I can now confirm a venue and time for the footpaths mapping party in the
Cranleigh area this Saturday.
The meeting place will be Cromwell Coffee House, on the high street at 9.30 to
9.45 am. I don't know what this place is like but it had a couple of fairly
decent reviews on the
Yes, I was questioning one of the authors (Goldman) rather than the guy who
posted to the list (John Baker).
Back to the mapping party itself, I might be interested but, due to work
commitments, only if it was on certain dates: early in the new year (Jan
1st-6th); Easter or next summer.
Nick
(there's about four Fairhursts in the Oxford
phone book, and about four pages of them in the St Helens one...)
As an aside I'm quite surprised at that, as almost all places ending in hurst
in the UK are south of the M4 and east of two degrees west.
Nick
Hello everyone,
There will be a footpaths mapping party in the Cranleigh area of Surrey on Sat
13th Oct (previously advised about this but now have the date certain).
The aim will be to as map as many of the missing footpaths in the area between
Cranleigh, Alfold and Dunsfold. Most of Surrey
Noticed this when looking at OSM earlier, which I think is Spanish for South
of Edinburgh - tagging mistake?
Nick
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To: Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent@Southampton Solent University
From: Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent
Date: 29/08/2012 10:06AM
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Sur de Edimburgo ?
To follow up, I've changed
Hi,
Sometime in the next couple of months, I'd like to run a footpaths party in SW
Surrey. Most of Surrey's footpaths seem to be more-or-less-complete on OSM, but
there is a missing area in SW Surrey, SW of Cranleigh, towards Dunsfold and
Alfold. The idea of this mapping party, originally
What you want is something like freemap: http://www.free-map.org.uk/
But it seems it does not show the whole of GB any more. I'm not sure why.
Because it is a not-for-profit project and server space/power costs money !!!
;-)
It does cover central southern England, Wales and most of the popular
that would be awesome imho.
I do like that http://hiking.lonvia.de/en/ shows the waymarked trails, which I
think is an important part of UK walking, so be great to include that if at
all possible.
ISTR asking lonvia about how to do waymarked trails... it was a bit of a PITA
working with
Here (Hampshire and surrounding counties), by what's on the ground: they tend
to be signed as either byway or restricted byway.
Nick
-Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: -
To: talk-GB@openstreetmap.org
From: Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com
Date: 22/08/2012 01:33PM
Subject: [Talk-GB]
Newer signs in Wiltshire do distinguish between byway and restricted byway. The
former typically look like miniature road signs reading Byway whereas the
latter have a purple border and explicitly say restricted byway.
It varies depending on county but as I said earlier most counties round
They're not even equivalent things? I've mapped many things with
highway=footway, that are most definitely not sidewalks. They go for
example between blocks of houses... or in the country side.
Use of sidewalk seems fair enough in the USA where it is part
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