Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!)

2020-05-14 Thread SK53
It's worth pointing out that the same can be done with the following editors: iD, Potlatch2, and Vespucci. The actual formats (gpx, kml, shape, geojson) vary a bit, but all have the capability. For some years I've loaded KMLs onto Maps.Me so I can actually check the line in the field (I've made

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!)

2020-05-14 Thread Tony OSM
Hi I had the Lancashire KML file handy (as you do),  looked up JOSM import and found the OpenData plug in. Dropped the KML file onto the plug in and it created a lancashire.kml layer with all of the ways on the layer and the kml fields as tags. When combined with OSM data and ESRI imagery

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!)

2020-05-14 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Tony and Gareth, Thanks for your thoughts. My main thought was a specialised JOSM plugin - I did take a look at OSM's main GPX trace facility but it appears not to preserve tags in the uploaded trace. Some versions of the MapThePaths app (the first version, and the current version on

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!)

2020-05-14 Thread Gareth L
I wonder if it would be possible to use the GPS trace feature on OSM for this? Maybe format the name in a way to make it easier to retrieve? Takes care of the storage of the traces. On 14 May 2020, at 09:22, Tony OSM wrote:  Hi Nick I like the two stage approach - surveying then mapping.

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!)

2020-05-14 Thread Tony OSM
Hi Nick I like the two stage approach - surveying then mapping. It would work well - some of my friends like walking but can't map to save their life, whereas I can't walk far but love mapping - Win Win for us all. May I suggest that a layer be created for JOSM with all the paths and their

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!)

2020-05-13 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Nick, I like your idea. Breaking the tasks down in to chunks makes sense. One group of beginners contribute data (a gps trace all coordinated via a simple app) whilst another group make the edits in OSM. P.S. On mapthepaths.org.uk (the website) can you make it such that when I click a local

Re: [Talk-GB] Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!)

2020-05-13 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Oops... sorry one or two editing errors in the last paragraph. I meant to say: "They [the non-expert user] select ROW type and path surface via a nice interface, and then a tagged GPX trace is generated, *with trksegs tagged with ROW designation and surface* (which was done by the first