Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way data for Cambridgeshire

2017-05-30 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 12 May 2017 at 12:08, Adam Snape wrote: > I would be interested to add rights of way information closer to home > (Lancashire). I'm currently figuring out how best to make my tool at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/prow/progress/ scale to be able to include many more

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way data for Cambridgeshire

2017-05-26 Thread John Sturdy
It's interesting to compare their approach with that of the capital of what used to be one of the most closed countries: the Municipality of Tirana (Albania) is now putting (some of) its data online voluntarily, in co-operation with the local hackerspace. http://opendata.tirana.al/ They haven't

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way data for Cambridgeshire

2017-05-26 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 11 May 2017 at 20:24, John Aldridge wrote: > One bit of feedback, from a first try at doing this for real: footpaths > often cross parish boundaries, and at least in this area change their > reference when they do so. But your slippy map only displays geometry for a > single

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way data for Cambridgeshire

2017-05-12 Thread Adam Snape
I would be interested to add rights of way information closer to home (Lancashire). Dave refers to the long list of other councils that have released row information. Is this the rowmaps website or is it somewhere on osm that I'm missing? The information on rowmaps is not clear. Is all of the

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way data for Cambridgeshire

2017-05-11 Thread John Aldridge
One bit of feedback, from a first try at doing this for real: footpaths often cross parish boundaries, and at least in this area change their reference when they do so. But your slippy map only displays geometry for a single parish at a time, meaning that tracking the prow_ref value for the

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way data for Cambridgeshire

2017-05-11 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 11 May 2017 at 08:04, John Aldridge wrote: > On 11-May-17 00:20, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: >> The presence of prow_ref=* >> tags to allow matching with official data is almost non-existent.) > > So what's the best way to fix this? > > If I click on your map, it shows

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way data for Cambridgeshire

2017-05-11 Thread Andy Allan
On 11 May 2017 at 09:07, Dan S wrote: > Congratulations Robert! The long thread of letters is... educational! To put it mildly! Well done Robert, not only on the outcome but also in keeping calm and civil during the protracted correspondence. My highlight of the saga

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way data for Cambridgeshire

2017-05-11 Thread John Aldridge
On 11-May-17 00:20, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: The presence of prow_ref=* tags to allow matching with official data is almost non-existent.) So what's the best way to fix this? If I click on your map, it shows me something like Teversham FP 3 (MS: 0 | ΔL/L: —) which is a bit

[Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way data for Cambridgeshire

2017-05-10 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
After a rather long battle with Cambridgeshire County Council over the release and licensing of their Public Rights of Way GIS data, the ICO ruled in my favour again last month, and the Council have now released the data under the Open Government Licence. This means it's suitable for use in OSM.