How do footpaths work legally with textual descriptions?
If a field has a stile/gate at opposite corners. The footpath may have
originally cut across, legally the landowner has to allow access between
the two gates, but can he make people walk round the edge of his field.
Also in reverse, if the
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the Hampshire data is out-of-date.
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
Hi All,
As the public sector release spatial data in an open licence we may end up
with a few potentially conflicting data sources (Bing, Ground Survey,
Government Shapefiles). I would like hear peoples opinions on this. I will
use the Rights of Way data Hampshire CC recently released, however I
Yeah, I think it might me a slow process but if there is a clear problem
then may still be worth writing in to start the ball rolling.
By keeping RoW and paths separate what do you mean? Add a way with a
designation=public_footpath (for example) without the highway tag?
RobJN
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