Hello everyone, Quick update on Freemap - a countryside orientated OSM renderer covering England and Wales. The vast majority of the country is now covered, with, notably, the south west, South Wales and East Anglia now included. The only parts of England and Wales I believe are missing are the areas around the biggest cities (London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Liverpool, Cardiff) which I have decided to include in order to avoid overloading the server (originally Freemap had the whole UK but this caused speed problems). I'm still aiming to move it to a new server but have got some issues rendering SRTM contours which I haven't got round to solving yet.
I've also changed the rendering back to the original scheme as I think it's aesthetically more pleasing, though the roads are more faded out to highlight the rights of way. Footpaths are red dots, bridleways are red dashed lines, byways are solid red lines, permissive footpaths are purple dots, permissive bridleways are purple dashed lines. Other paths or tracks, which have not been tagged specifically as a right of way, are just shown as black dashed lines. This brings me to the tagging I have used, which is expanded a little on last time. Now I assume that highway=bridleway is a PUBLIC bridleway, unless horse=permissive is tagged. I also recognise the "designation" tag and "designated" value. *However*, the thing I currently ignore (i.e. just render as a plain path, not a right of way) is highway=footway, foot=yes. This is because this combination of tags has been used a lot for paths which are *not* rights of way, and therefore is of no use in recognising a public footpath. Instead, either foot=designated, or designation=(public_)footpath has to be present for a path to be recognised as a public footpath. Bridleways do not suffer the same problem therefore all that's required is highway=bridleway, and not horse=permissive. Apologies for the map key, I need to update this. Also watch out for a new version of the mobile application Freemap Mobile soon, I'm going to give it some in the field testing this weekend. Nick _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
