[Talk-GB] April Nottingham pub meeting

2019-04-22 Thread SK53
A reminder that our April meeting will be at the Lincolnshire Poacher from 19:30 tomorrow evening. We'll be meeting at Left Lion at 18:30 to check for & map any changes in the city centre. I'll try & think a bit about areas most needing an update. More on the wiki:

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping a combined stile and gate?

2019-04-22 Thread Roger Calvert
The surveyors are volunteers who are trained by the National Park to undertake periodic surveys of PROWs, monitoring the condition of paths, stiles, bridges, surface etc and reporting back to the Ranger team. I do not have a link - it is a leaflet issued to surveyors on the training course,

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping a combined stile and gate?

2019-04-22 Thread Dave F via Talk-GB
On 22/04/2019 15:34, Roger Calvert wrote: The Lake District National Park instructions to footpath surveyors recommends: "Where there are two items of furniture for the same crossing (for example, a gate and a stile alongside each other), then it is the one highest up the hierarchy .. or the

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping a combined stile and gate?

2019-04-22 Thread Philip Barnes
On Mon, 2019-04-22 at 15:34 +0100, Roger Calvert wrote: > The Lake District National Park instructions to footpath > surveyors > recommends: > > > > "Where there are two items of furniture for the same crossing > (for > example, a gate and a stile alongside each other), then

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping a combined stile and gate?

2019-04-22 Thread Roger Calvert
The Lake District National Park instructions to footpath surveyors recommends: "Where there are two items of furniture for the same crossing (for example, a gate and a stile alongside each other), then it is the one highest up the hierarchy .. or the one definitely on the definitive line,

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping a combined stile and gate?

2019-04-22 Thread Ed Loach
I recently found this gate which I think everyone walks around, but I'll probably map it as on the route of the footpath when I get around to looking through all the photos from that day. https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/w2kvnsbGoKkhgIKFMsksLg Ed From: SK53

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping a combined stile and gate?

2019-04-22 Thread Dave F via Talk-GB
If I have the patience, I split them: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/51.40349/-2.44502 The PROW ref should go over the stile's way even if the gate is always open - it's up the walker to decide which to use (even if the choice is obvious) DaveF On 22/04/2019 13:43, Martin Wynne

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping a combined stile and gate?

2019-04-22 Thread SK53
I will often map both the track through the gate & the path over the stile. It's usually a matter of judgement as to whether the line of the PRoW should go over the stile or through the gate. It's not unusual to find a moribund stile in such circumstances, which I map as a standalone node. Keeping

[Talk-GB] Mapping a combined stile and gate?

2019-04-22 Thread Martin Wynne
Often in my travels I come across something like this: http://85a.uk/stile_gate2_1280x720.jpg http://85a.uk/stile_gate_1280x720.jpg Should this be mapped as a stile or a gate? Or both side by side? If the latter, which node should the way be connected to? It's a public right of way on