Brian Prangle wrote on 27/08/2010 08:02:
Have we got to the stage of mapping these that it would be worth the effort in replicating a rendering similar to OpenCycleMap?. The wiki page on long distance paths seems to have a pretty comprehensive listing and you can get nice maps when you browse the relation for individual routes. It would be great to have them all on an OpenCycleMap clone - perhaps OpenPathMap?. Identifying each route might be a challenge as they don't have nice reference numbers like the cycle routes. Perhaps the national routes listed could be colour coded separately from the regional routes? Unfortunately I don't have the skills to perform this feat, but is there any appetite for this task?As far as identifying the long distance routes, this has been set up as a project. See: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_Long_Distance_Paths I don't think there is anyone rendering it explicitly at the moment, however, it would be trivial for someone to take the OpenCycleMap code and apply a similar style to an OpenWalkMap. Having said that, there are a number of people who are experimenting with different map displays, so there is likely to be something out there. OCM documentation is fairly complete, but the LDP network is not. There is certainly someone seeking to replicate an OS style map for footpaths. The main problem for OSM as I see it is not the documentation of the path, but the difficulty in accurately rendering landmarks which mean that for genuine navigation, the OS map provides all sorts of useful clues (e.g. which side of a hedge should a footpath run can be very important when you are at a complicated junction of footpaths) that OSM will struggle to provide due to the difficulty of sourcing hedging for example. Spenny |
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