On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 14:37 +0000, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > I think some discussion of this has come up before (some time ago) but how > many people are tagging footpaths with their council reference numbers? > > Reason I ask is that I'm in the process of overhauling Freemap and one thing > I'd like to do is allow people to tag footpaths with (perhaps subjective) > comments which would be out of place in the main OSM database, such as > whether it has a nice view, whether there are any problems with the path, etc. > > I do this already to some extent but the only problem is that the comments > are linked to the path's OSM ID. Obviously if the path is split, or deleted > and redrawn, the OSM ID then becomes invalidated so it's tricky to ensure > that comments remain associated with the correct footpath. > > However council footpath reference numbers can uniquely identify a footpath, > so obviously if comments were linked to ref numbers the problem would be much > simplified.
AFAIK the path numbers in Hampshire are only unique within parish boundaries. Although not impossible, it might be a bit of a PITA to add RoW numbers to paths that either cross the boundary multiple times or are themselves part of the boundary. > I know one or two people have been tagging ref numbers but where have they > got the info from? A couple of councils round here (Hants, West Sussex) > publish the path numbers on their online maps but it's unclear whether > copying from them would be infringement of copyright. > > If anyone has been extensively tagging paths with ref numbers let me know > where as it would be a good "test bed" for the system. Have a look at the Isle of Wight. The signs over there often include the path number and I know at least some of them have been entered into OSM. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
