+1 for blocking
Have contacted islandtoerag about silly edits in Southampton, no response.
Time to block this destructive yob.
Nick
-David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: -
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
From: David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net
Date: 18/08/2012 06:31PM
Subject:
Hi,
I noticed a few days ago that the royal mail has made a map of the
postboxes they've painted gold (just temporarily?) for this Olympics.
Quite nicely, they use OSM, but they don't (obviously? at all?) credit
OSM:
http://www.goldpostboxes.com/
Hi Neil,
This has come up before on the talk
OK.
Incidentally regarding finding missing Hampshire footpaths using the council
data, I have a site which overlays Hampshire ROW data on OSM:
http://www.free-map.org.uk/hampshire/?[lat=lon=...]
e.g.
http://www.free-map.org.uk/hampshire/?lon=-1.25lat=50.92
Shows up a few footpaths near
I might be interested depending on the date - missing SOTM for the first time
this year, not because of the distance (I quite fancy seeing Japan) but because
it's difficult to get a lot of time of work in September. Would be good to have
some sort of big OSM meetup locally (as in Western
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the Hampshire data is out-of-date.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,
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
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This is not HCC doing something with OSM - this is HCC releasing their
rights-of-way data under an open licence. The link provided is my own mash-up
of OSM and HCC data.
Nick
-Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: -
To: Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
From: Gregory
Hello Rob,
Sorry for the late reply on this. Basically how it works is:
- the shapefile was converted to Postgres SQL using shp2pgsql;
- the data was imported into a PostGIS database;
- some custom code (actually same underlying code as Freemap) was written to
fetch data as GeoJSON from the
Hello everyone,
Re: the Hampshire ROW data - this is the response I got from the person I am in
contact with.
In answer to the queries below, the data is free to use as is the OS
open data on their website.
The data was originally captured against the 10k raster data, meaning it
carried OS
Hello Gregory,
The quotes are used to quote the email. So the 'so in summary...' bit is mine
and the 'so in short' is theirs.
Nick
-Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: -
To: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk
From: Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com
Date: 11/06/2012 02
Hello Rob, (and all)
I've emailed the Hants CC guy once - he was away so the email bounced.
I've emailed him again tonight.
Nick
-Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: -
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org, nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk,
legal-t...@openstreetmap.org
From: Rob
Hi,
While waiting for the decision as to whether we should use the Hants CC data,
I've started work on a small side-project OpenHants which overlays the Hants
CC footpath data as a separate layer on top of a kothic-js rendered OSM map
(basically same server side code as for Freemap). Footpaths
(UCRs)
While we're on this topic actually, I notice that West Sussex has started
signing these Public Way. Not public byway, or public bridleway, but just
plain public way - you can tell them because formerly there was no waymarking
at all.
Nick
Hello everyone,
Some good news! As from yesterday, Hampshire County Council have released their
Rights of Way data under the OS OpenData licence.
Details here:
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/communications/mediacentre/mediareleases.htm?newsid=534104
Slippy map, and downloadable raw data (shp or kml
Hence, unfortunately, I don't think we can use the Hampshire data
(going forward under ODbL) unless we get explicit permission from the
copyright holders. For the maps, this would presumably mean both the
council and OS. It's a real pain that OS felt it necessary to fork the
Open Government
I guess the thing to do is just use the most common reference.
I am aware of several schemes:
Hampshire uses parish plus number e.g. Tichborne Footpath 5, West Sussex uses
a county-wide, 3 or 4 digit number (e.g. 1263, 2005) and I've also seen XXX/YY
(in Wrexham borough, Wales) and very
Sorry but I do have to say this. In an area (UK outside of Scotland)
where sadly, you're not free to roam where you like, access rights are
*absolutely vital detail* for walkers and other users of the countryside
and indicating them explicitly where known, either via designation, or
People map to the level of detail they're comfortable with, and that's a
strength not a weakness. Legal designations, access rights and surface
type are pointless detail to a new mapper.
Sorry but I do have to say this. In an area (UK outside of Scotland) where
sadly, you're not free to roam
P.S. Please don't yawn in your emails, it's rude.
Seconded. There's no need for this sort of disrespectful rudeness and sarcasm
on this list.
Nick
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On 02/05/12 16:41, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
One project goal might be to consolidate the various scattered
information on the wiki describing how to map RoWs in the first place.
Come up with *one* consensus approach. We seem to be settling on
designation=* + highway={foot,cycle,bridle}way
One project goal might be to consolidate the various scattered
information on the wiki describing how to map RoWs in the first place.
Come up with *one* consensus approach. We seem to be settling on
designation=* + highway={foot,cycle,bridle}way, by the looks of it (full
disclosure; it's the
I have used suspected=orpa for one or two of these in Hampshire. By doing
this you're not stating it's a right of way, but on the other hand you are
adding additional information which means it's *more likely to be* a right of
way than a random path through private land used as an informal
We probably shouldn't be using ORPA in OSM as this is an OS-specific
term, that AFAIK only exists on their maps.
I'm not so sure. In Hampshire in particular there are large numbers of tracks
which obviously have public access (e.g. footpaths end on them, evidence of
frequent foot/horse use)
I'm up for it. Finding enough to sustain a mapping party might be
difficult (South Hants is more or less road and footpath complete) but
we could make it a social. Anyone else interested?
Andy
Yes, I'd be interested. Robert - I'm aware of you via 'robbieonsea' edits
(usually in the
It is a bit early though, they're normally late April/Early May.
I have seen a few this year though.
I guess the warm March and cold, wet April must confuse a fair few things,
though it seems a good one for blossom. The colder weather seems to have put a
brake on the over-advanced development
Maybe we should organize an East Hampshire OSM people (maybe for a pub walk
/ or mapping party ) get together some time this summer - it would be
great to meet AndyS, NickW and any other like minded individuals.
I'm up for it. Finding enough to sustain a mapping party might be
difficult
Had some quite extraordinary problems trying to get a GPS signal this afternoon
in the Fisherstreet area, on the Surrey/W Sussex border a few miles SE of
Haslemere.
Between around 1300 and 1400 BST I could get no signal whatsoever. I lost the
signal in a wooded area around 1255 BST and then
Andy's aware of it. Could be zealotry or an honest mistake by an inexperienced
mapper... that or someone's used it as a nuclear test site :-)
Nick
-Robert Norris rw_nor...@hotmail.com wrote: -
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
From: Robert Norris rw_nor...@hotmail.com
Date: 29/03/2012
On 23 March 2012 12:58, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote:
Incidentally, is just knowing the footpaths evidence enough to tag with
odbl=clean? Or is there the risk that the footpath was created with iffy
sources?
While we're on this topic, could I urge all of those working
While we're on this topic, could I urge all of those working on Andy Street's
area
to remap all constituent nodes of a way, rather than just the way itself,
I've
come across at least 3 users who have re-constructed ways but left Andy's nodes
intact. I'd have thought that remapping the ways
I ask as I am intending to do some remapping of Andy Street's paths in the
Bishops Waltham/Meon Valley area and wondering whether I have to actually
walk the paths again or just tag with odbl=clean
You don't have to walk the path if you can map it using other
techniques, such as GPS traces,
Incidentally, is just knowing the footpaths evidence enough to tag with
odbl=clean? Or is there the risk that the footpath was created with iffy
sources?
I ask as I am intending to do some remapping of Andy Street's paths in the
Bishops Waltham/Meon Valley area and wondering whether I have to
I'm trying to do footpaths as and when, but it'll be a slow process as I've got
quite a lot of other things on my plate at the moment.
I've done a few round Bishops Waltham and the Meon Valley, and may well do more
this weekend, but I'd welcome any other contributions as there is no way I am
Hi,
As from yesterday (March 18th) the default version of Freemap
(www.free-map.org.uk; UK OSM-based countryside mapping site) has become the
kothic-js based 0.6.
As well as client-side rendering using kothic-js, the new version features
* Ability to add annotations to the map (as before)
Hello everyone,
As I've said before there is quite a major problem with Hampshire rights of way
post-licence-change, due to the fact that very large numbers of footpaths in
mid-Hampshire were contributed by a declining former mapper, Andy Street, and
they will be deleted. Since this is my
I think both have their advantages - I like the idea of a good signposted
rights of way network, but I intensely dislike the Anglo-American attitude
towards private property compared to say Scotland or Germany (naming two
countries I've walked in where they seem to be more easy-going)
On the
3. Re-marking countryside source=npe stuff traced by people (normally
back in OSM history before highway=path was invented). Because OS New
Popular Edition maps were made before rights of way were codified,
it's impossible to tell if a dotted line on the old map is a bridleway
or a footpath - or
---
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:United_Kingdom_Tagging_Guidelines#JOSM_presets_now_available
Comments on these presets and how they might be improved are welcome!
I may have not been reading this list thoroughly but I did not realise
that highway=path is a vexed issue. I have
This is a somewhat contentious issue, but all I can say is that this is
precisely what I do and several others.
Remember to also use the designation tag to specify the rights,
public_footpath / public_bridleway / byway_open_to_all_traffic etc.
highway is generally taken to indicate the physical
I'd just like to add that one of the top contributors down as declined is
actually undecided due to Ordnance Survey OpenData compatibility concerns, not
sure why he's down as declined, whether that was a mistake on his part.
I've emailed him to get him to decide one way or the other, but as I
Hello everyone,
Just a reminder that I will be in the Llangollen area, North Wales, from Monday
2nd Jan (11.30am) until late afternoon Thursday 5th if anyone fancies any new
year mapping / walking to work off Christmas over-eating :-)
Please sign up on the wiki page
Hi,
Over Christmas I've been knocking together a demo which uses kothic-js client
side rendering for Freemap, incorporating LandForm PANORAMA contours.
You can see it at http://www.free-map.org.uk/0.6/; full details on the blog
post at http://www.free-map.org.uk/wordpress/?p=221. It's best
Hi,
I've mentioned this before, but have actually booked some accommodation now so
it's definitely happening.
I'm staying in the Llangollen area of North Wales for a few days in the new
year, from Monday January 2 to Thursday January 5, aiming to do some walking
and mapping. It's a hilly and
As I posted a month or two ago I have prepared some tiles containing Vector Map
District raster tiles overlaid with LandForm Panorama contours.
For the past two months or so they have been available as a slippy map on
Freemap (http://www.free-map.org.uk/vmd/). However, they are taking a huge
(I'm also keen BTW to deal with a possible licencing issue here.
A long-standing contributor has mapped many footpaths in
Hampshire already but has not signed up to the CTs. Naturally
I'm keen not to see all his hard work lost, and TBH, while I'm
licence-neutral, I've got better things
Yes indeed. Just looked at Fernhurst, W Sussex for instance. The place is
absolutely crawling with non-existent roads.
Seems anything tagged with highway=track in OSM would qualify as a road in
that...
Nick
-Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: -
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Hello everyone,
2012 could be the year in which we complete, or almost complete, all the
rights of way in some English counties. One likely target is my local county -
Hampshire. OSM road coverage of many parts of the UK is virtually complete in
many areas, but footpaths are still lagging
. Seriously tempted to give it a play.
Nick
-Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: -
To: d...@openstreetmap.org
From: Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net
Date: 01/12/2011 01:42PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] speeding up loading an OSM dump into PostGIS?
Nick Whitelegg wrote:
It's certainly
Hello everyone,
Thought I'd email this as I have some thoughts as to how Freemap
(free-map.org.uk; countryside-orientated mapping for UK users) could operate
without excessive demands on a single server.
Basically, I'm wondering if anyone has unused server space/bandwidth allowances
who might
to donate money of course.
Nick
-Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: -
To: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk
From: Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk
Date: 24/11/2011 03:01PM
Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Anyone interested in participating
Hello everyone,
I have a week I can take off immediately after new year, so was wondering
whether anyone would be interested in a countryside-orientated mapping party
then. I know it's not the ideal time of year for outdoor events, but I thought
starting the new year with a mapping party
Hi,
Not sure who maintains the out-of-copyright stuff, but I thought I'd best ask
this in the light of recent discussions.
I am developing an Android app OpenTrail - which amongst other things shows
tiles from Freemap (my own) plus out-of-copyright tiles from
ooc.openstreetmap.org. I have
Anyone else got opinions on the date? We could go for a two day mapping
party?
I
might be interested depending on the type of mapping. Not so interested
in addressing etc, but if it's road surveying/naming I'd be tempted.
ATM can do any weekend except 12/13th.
Nick
Thought it would be a good time to ask about this as the whole topic of running
your own OSM tileserver has come up a lot lately.
Am wanting to develop Freemap (coubtryside-orientated OSM site) and its mobile
client, OpenTrail, further but the thing that's always holding me back, and
forcing
Hi,
Did an initial experiment with this a while back but now I've extended the area
of coverage to include much of England and all of Wales.
Anyway, Freemap-VMD (working title) is a combination of VectorMap District
raster tiles, LandForm PANORAMA contours and rights of way and permissive
Hi,
Did an initial experiment with this a while back but now I've extended the
area of coverage to include much of England and all of Wales.
[snip]
Oops - forgot the URL! http://www.free-map.org.uk/vmd/
Nick
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-Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: -
Hi,
just a quick note that (because some people were asking) I've now
added a daily Greater London .osm.pbf/.shp.zip to
http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/great_britain/england/
This includes, somewhat incorrectly I guess, the
Related to the ongoing discussion on talk, and given the large memory
requirements of osm2pgsql imports, has anyone published a tiled import
script, where the import area is broken into say degree tiles, and each tile
imported as a separate osm2pgsql job? If not, I'm inclined to do one myself
-
Related to the ongoing discussion on talk, and given the large memory
requirements of osm2pgsql imports, has anyone published a tiled import
script, where the import area is broken into say degree tiles, and each tile
imported as a separate osm2pgsql job? If not, I'm inclined to do one
Hello everyone,
There will be a footpaths orientated mapping party in the Dunsfold and
Chiddingfold area, S Surrey, on Saturday October 22nd. Surrey is mostly
complete - even footpaths - but there is still a big gap in this area.
Details here:
Hello everyone,
Partly following on from the recent Shere mapping party, I'd like to hold a
footpaths mapping party in the Dunsfold area of Surrey sometime in the next
month, before the evenings get too dark. I'm extending to the first weekend in
November but after that it really will be
Hi 80n,
Sorry I'm missing this - but I just arrived back from Colorado yesterday and
have had a family occasion too, so consequently a bit tired!
Would be good to know of any missing footpaths still in that area though after
today - am looking for an excuse to do some in-fill Surrey footpath
Could this be distributed to other parts of the UK I wonder?
The Monarch's Way passes near me, we could probably do something down south too.
Nick
-SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: -
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
From: SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk
Date:
From: Steve Dobson st...@dobbo.org
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Sat, 20 August, 2011 16:44:45
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] To delete or not to delete, that is the question...
Nick
On 20/08/11 14:52, Phil Endecott wrote:
Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Around Easter
[snip]
Someone suggested the definitive map, maybe I'll see if the relevant council
(it's not my local one) has an online map and verify it with that.
As it happens, the problem seems to have gone away. Since I originally surveyed
the track, the designation tag has been removed by an
Had an experience yesterday which raises an interesting legal question. Around
Easter 2010, IIRC, I surveyed what appeared to be a footpath in good faith: the
footpath sign appeared to point down a gravel track across a field. Yesterday,
as part of another mapping expedition, I followed said
To: Nick Whitelegg nick_whitel...@yahoo.co.uk
From: Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu
Date: 20/08/2011 11:23AM
Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org, legal-t...@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] To delete or not to delete, that is the question...
On 20/08/11 11:11, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
This does
I don't normally get involved in licencing stuff, but I disagree with
unnecessary data destruction.
While I have accepted the CTs, and to be honest don't care one way or the other
about ODBL, CC, etc I would urge most strongly that this is *not* done. Tim
is a decent guy and has
Though having re-read your post, the incorrect attribution is really bad. Don't
think my local one had that otherwise I'd have probably noticed but will check
next time I'm there.
Nick
-Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent wrote: -
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
From: Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent
Date
So if you wanted a map that highlights byways, you'd just need to make
sure that the stylesheet noticed those tags and chose the rendering
occasionally. I _think_ Nick W's Freemap does this already. Personally I
think it's fairly unlikely for either Mapnik or Osmarender, because
they're worldwide
The problem is having highway=bridleway with highway=track. Now as Richard B
said there is now the designation tag so highway=track and
designation=public bridleway can be done. However this isn't rendered
either at all, or if it were would clash and not render correctly (brown
dash for
Very basically this is all a problem becuase highway=track and
highway=bridleway/byway/footway cannot both be tagged together. They need to
be understood and moved, or duplicated into 'routes' or another key to state
access. Having them together any longer will knock 10 years off my life,
I have PHP code to do this, it was based on the JEEPS C library.
It's available
http://www.free-map.org.uk/svn/freemap/lib/latlong.php
Also available is Jcoord, JScoord and PHPcoord from Jonathan Stott
(www.jstott.me.uk/jcoord). Note this is GPL, not LGPL, and therefore can only
be used in
Actually just realised this is a dodgy svn version with bugs, it's not my
current production version. It won't work because some of the associative array
fields are called 'long' not 'lon'. I'll try and update this later.
Nick
-Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote
To me, the most significant thing about that map is that it demonstrates
how vast swathes of the UK have almost no footpath data at all.
True, it shows how the paths are nicely concentrated in the south-east, the
Manchester area, and the National Parks. Time for some footpath parties, or
Thanks for the suggestion. Take a look at this one which I hope does roughly
what you have asked for with the exception that I have coloured 'other
designations' with a off-yellow (as used for unrecognised values in other map
views) and I have added grey for paths with no designation. Grey
Can do. Is this a separate value/colour or is it an alias for another value?
If
it is a separate colour then what colour would you suggest?
I use it for full byways (rather than restricted) but others might use it for
other things.
Maybe in view of what Robert said it's best they're re-tagged
Hello Peter,
I would say the most important thing with official rights of way is to tag them
with designation=public_footpath, public_bridleway, public_byway or
restricted_byway (as appropriate). The designation tag is AFAIK generally
regarded these days as the most definitive indication of
-Adam Hoyle adam.li...@dotankstudios.com wrote: -
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
From: Adam Hoyle adam.li...@dotankstudios.com
Date: 04/05/2011 06:07PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] On footpaths
This is a very interesting discussion. I've been walking and then adding
footpaths north of High
I'd just like some clarification on this. I have contributed a very, very small
amount of data via OS OpenData (Haslemere and Andover IIRC but such a small
amount that it won't take long to re-survey - feel free to delete any nickw
edits in those areas with source=OS Open Data) but being such
Hi,
Near me there are a couple of areas with paid access only - Marwell Zoo and
Exbury Gardens. Original tagging for the latter is foot=permissive which seems
inappropriate as you have to pay to get in, and foot=permissive suggests
completely open access.
What would others do in this
There are also sites like Nick Whitelegg's Freemap which are aiming
to integrate the sort of information walkers are interested in sharing.
Depending on other commitments/level of interest, I could do some more work on
Freemap regarding this.
At the moment, on Freemap, you can
Hello Dan,
There is Freemap which allows you to store your own walks, it does use OSM ways
but stores them locally. It doesn't use relations.
Not sure what other peoples thoughts would be but I'd guess storing them in OSM
itself would clutter up the database and it's best stored elsewhere.
What has been questioned is whether the information that a particular
path has that designation has come from a legitimate unencumbered source
.that we are able to use or whether it has come from sources which are
subject to copyright and/or database right and which hence should not
have been
As far as I know, ORPA is a term invented by Ordnance survey to
describe and mark some unclassified roads that might otherwise appear
to be private tracks on their maps. These are routes that aren't one
of the designated public rights of way (footpath, bridleway, byway,
restricted byway), but are
Answering myself, the following seems to work:
CREATE TABLE contours (gid serial PRIMARY KEY, height double precision);
SELECT AddGeometryColumn('', 'contours', 'way', '27700', 'LINESTRING', 2);
Yes that should work, or just
CREATE TABLE contours (gid serial PRIMARY KEY, height int, way
-Phil Endecott spam_from_os...@chezphil.org wrote: -
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
From: Phil Endecott spam_from_os...@chezphil.org
Date: 18/03/2011 02:12PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] LandForm Panorama + VectorMap District + OSM
Footpaths : Method
Hi Nick,
Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Have
Have put up a wiki page detailing how the 'pseudo-Landranger' map at
http://www.free-map.org.uk/expts/vmdlfp200/
was created...
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/VMD_plus_LFP_plus_OSM
Nick
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I had a meeting with OS on Thursday, where they seemed to think the 1st
April would see the next release of VectorMap District. I'm going to
render the whole country in the mean time (will take a few days) and
work out what all the problems are, then see what's fixed in April.
Good; I'd
for top posting btw, in a bit of a rush and my mail client isn't
terribly compliant towards quoting conventions...
Nick
-Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: -
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
From: Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk
Date: 12/03/2011 12:24PM
Subject: [Talk
Hi,
I've managed to produce a slippy VectorMap District map with LandForm Panorama
contours overlay at
http://www.free-map.org.uk/expts/vmdlfp200/
Only covers a 20km x 100km section of southern England at the moment.
Next stage will be to overlay OSM rights of way on the map.
Will write up a
Hi Steve,
I have been asked by editor of the Cartographic Journal to write a short
piece on the effect of the release of OS OpenData on the OpenStreetMap
project, and I am just trying to gather my thoughts, and make sure I cover
all bases.
[snip]
Not sure how relevant this is but I'd
Hello Graham,
Nick,
This has been on my list of things to do for a while too,
Same with me, but it's never been the no.1 priority, hence it's never really
seen the light of day yet. Maybe the next rainy weekend we get I'll do a
concentrated push at it...
but like many of my project ideas,
The main problem with the wiki page is that it didn't distinguish between an
official public footpath and a way which is there on the ground, but has no
known
designation or right of way status. (Or else the page just didn't cover that
case, even though it is by far the most common.)
Again this
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote:
On 1 March 2011 14:00, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote:
At risk of opening this discussion again ... You do need some way to
distinguish between official and unofficial rights of way though.
Nick, we do
eetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
The great strength of OSM is that it can be a platform for many (and hopefully
more to come) applications written by people all round the world.
Country-specific tagging guidelines make it more difficult to share
applications
with the rest of the world.
I'm not so
I think foot=designated should *only* be used where you have definite evidence
of a pedestrian right of way.
Or am I confusing foot=designated with designation=public_footpath? The latter
is what I have used until now for public footpaths, and seems unambiguous
enough
that it won't get tagged
Hi,
In case anyone might be interested I just thought I'd announce an initial
version of OpenTrail, which aims to become an Android OSM app for walkers and
hikers. At the moment it's pretty basic, but I thought I'd announce it now in
case anyone's interested in either the project or in
Some of the comments on the Android apps thread over on talk got me thinking
about approaches to try and get more of the UK rights of way network done,
particularly by contributors who may not wish to use a full scale editor.
Was thinking of a two stage approach, involving a relatively non
Nick,
Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Am interested in using the OS OpenData contour set for an
augmented reality app for walkers (extension of the OpenTrailView
idea). What I have in mind is to load them into a database
and implement a lookup facility where the elevation at a
particular lat/lon can
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