>-Had a quick look at Nick's current rendering which is a good stab as you >said. The thing that >sticks out is that there are very few footpaths rendered >as public footpaths. It is unsurprising >that this happens because Potlatch et >al have defaults when you select public footpath that just >implement >footpath. The biggest job for any reliable map would be to get mappers to >properly >identify which paths are probably public footpaths (said in such >ways because even OS deny being >reliable for that determination). THis is >where map rendering becomes an art and where a decision >gets taken as to >whether to render footpaths as public footpaths unless...
It's relatively easy at least in my part of the world to identify proper footpaths - in Hampshire the waymarking is quite good. However the general pattern is, the further away from the big cities you go, the worse the waymarking is - some of the England/Wales border counties were pretty dire 10 years ago when I last walked there extensively. However things seem to be improving. In terms of Freemap, something is treated as a public footpath if *either* it has designation=public_footpath, *or* foot=designated and horse is not designated. The style file I use is here: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/free-map.org.uk/freemap/data/freemap.xml LDPs are not yet shown - but assuming I can get Freemap up and running on Chris's server they can be added in, probably in an opencyclemap transparent style. Nick _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
