Bob Hawkins wrote: > Footpaths and bridleways are numbered on definitive maps but rarely on > signposts or waymarks. Often numbered on a parish or community basis > (HA10, for example), their use appears to be for legal puposes mainly, > rather than as an aid to navigation. Having said that, my local > /Chiltern Society/ footpath map is annotated with the definitve > numbers. So, I wonder what OSM mappers in GB feel about adding the > official numbers to such ways. I suspect copyright is an issue because > the rights of way numbers will invariably be on maps based upon the > Ordnance Survey, unless anyone knows that they are available from > another source.
I find them very regularly numbered in my home area of South London, and I have also seen them explicitly numbered on some of the more frequented trails in a national park (I cannot remember which, probably the Peak District though). Where the source is a signpost, I'd say include the number, I'd err on the side of caution and not source from a map, but I'd also be happy to source footpath numbers from the written definitive description of the right of way, which should be available from the council. I have put a little effort into finding and mapping the footpaths in my home borough, when the council numbered the signs, I didn't quite get around to mapping them all though... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Sutton_England/PROWs http://www.flickr.com/photos/grandedgemaster/3386460488/ _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
