I found this interesting paper on footpath attribution prepared by Scottish Natural Heritage.
There are some really interesting ideas for how best to grade access, surface, gradients etc. http://www.snh.org.uk/pdfs/publications/commissioned_reports/442.pdf Worth a read. Tim > From: [email protected] > Subject: Talk-GB Digest, Vol 56, Issue 31 > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 12:00:03 +0100 > > Send Talk-GB mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Talk-GB digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Kent Open Data, KCC (Gregory Williams) > 2. Any interest in a mapping party S Wales Sunday 26th June > (SK53 on OSM) > 3. Re: Tracks and there place in society (Richard Fairhurst) > 4. Re: Tracks and there place in society (Nick Whitelegg) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 16:00:17 +0100 > From: "Gregory Williams" <[email protected]> > To: "'TimSC'" <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Kent Open Data, KCC > Message-ID: > <018e01cc1a23$4b654f90$e22feeb0$@[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Looking at the school data I see that it's not completely up-to-date. I note > that one school shows the previous head's name (the current head has been in > place for a couple of years) and doesn't reflect that it's recently become > an academy. This despite the fact that it's noted that it was last modified > yesterday. > > > > So, based upon this admittedly isolated case, we shouldn't assume that all > of the data is current - we might have more up-to-date data than KCC. > > > > From: TimSC [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 23 May 2011 18:32 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Kent Open Data, KCC > > > > > I have been informed that the beta OpenKent site, with more data and > visualisation tools is here: > > http://www.openkent.org.uk/ > > Some things that caught my eye: lists of librarys, GPs, opticians, pharmacy, > KCC offices, medway car parks, schools. This would be good for validation, > as I said. > > As well as what has already been mentioned (speed limits, etc), we could > also do with lists of post offices, alchohol licensed buildings, sure starts > (kindergartens), petrol stations (or petrol storage), public telephones*, > taxi ranks*, dentists*, arts centres, public art, law courts, crematoria, > fire stations, police stations, council grave yards*, markets*, prisons, > recycling points, public toilets, places of worship*, parks, landfills, > allotments, sports centres, tourist information offices, museums, highway > maintenance depots, quarries, planning permissions, amusements, auction > licenses, animal boardings, pet shops, tattoo shops, sex establishments, > horse riding establishments, gambling locations, zoos, trees (apparently the > highway authority has a tree database), park parks (including outside > medway), highway renaming, new highway designations, changes to rights of > way, all business premises .... did I miss anything?! If that is too much, > we can prioritise our request to the council. We might start by asking for > data that no one else has on their map and that is hard to comprehensively > survey without their information. (Remember, I am not proposing to import > anything yet, just to check against what the council has.) Hackey council > has a list of many things they license, on the web [1], which is good for > ideas. > > * that is if the council holds the data. > > If people can think of more data sets, we can put together a doodle poll to > find the most wanted and to provide some justification (i.e. public demand) > for us requesting the data. > > Btw, I found the parish data I was looking for in OS OpenData, so no need to > pester the council for that. > > TimSC > > [1] http://www.hackney.gov.uk/licensing.htm > > On 23/05/11 16:10, Gregory Williams wrote: > > I've seen excerpts of that data in reports presented to the various Joint > Transport Board meetings, so yes they have it. > > > > Gregory > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/attachments/20110524/d1a82a69/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 17:28:27 +0100 > From: Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Talk-GB] Any interest in a mapping party S Wales Sunday 26th > June > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I plan to be in S. Wales for a few days late June, and will be free on > Sunday 26th June. > > My suggestion would be Carmarthen : its not well mapped and is > convenient for me, and reachable by public transport. > > Any takers? > > Jerry > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 20:53:31 +0100 (BST) > From: "Richard Fairhurst" <[email protected]> > To: "Ben Robbins" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Tracks and there place in society > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > Ben Robbins wrote: > > Also, I have no idea how to take this to talk-gb, except by simply > > replying there not here, and breaking up a string of responses. I did > > however justify why it's here, which your welcome to read. I'm still > > struggling some what with getting these replies in the right place, so > > sorry about that. > > I find nabble.com is really good for being able to follow threaded > discussions on the OSM lists without having ten tons of messages dumped in > your inbox every day. :) I've crossposted this to talk-gb so you can reply > there. > > > So to get back on track, and I think the answer is clear. There is no way > > to get a byway on a track to render as a byway on a track on either mapnik > > or osmarender. Is that correct? And if so, does the current tagging > > scehem simply require a render change to allow this > > Yep. > > The tag "highway=byway" has fallen out of use. It doesn't really make > sense to anyone outside the UK. > > Instead, in the UK, those of us who like tagging byways tend to add > "designation=restricted_byway" or "designation=byway_open_to_all_traffic" > (which are the two legal categories, and imply access) to a more physical > tag - usually "highway=bridleway" or "highway=track". > > So if you wanted a map that highlights byways, you'd just need to make > sure that the stylesheet noticed those tags and chose the rendering > occasionally. I _think_ Nick W's Freemap does this already. Personally I > think it's fairly unlikely for either Mapnik or Osmarender, because > they're worldwide stylesheets. But you can always ask! > > cheers > Richard > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 21:12:04 +0100 > From: Nick Whitelegg <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Tracks and there place in society > Message-ID: > <offa49f9fd.ce90d324-on8025789a.006ef7f0-8025789a.006ef...@solent.ac.uk> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > >So if you wanted a map that highlights byways, you'd just need to make > >sure that the stylesheet noticed those tags and chose the rendering > >occasionally. I _think_ Nick W's Freemap does this already. Personally I > >think it's fairly unlikely for either Mapnik or Osmarender, because > >they're worldwide stylesheets. But you can always ask! > > Yes, it does recognise designation=public_byway, restricted_byway, byway, > byway_open_to_all_traffic, and will render them in red. However (Ben, in > response to your earlier question) it doesn't re-render instantly. The > tileserver has been very generously provided by, and is managed, Swansea > University Computer Society,? and re-renders a tile (I believe) one day after > it's requested. > > So patience! ;-) > > Nick > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/attachments/20110524/77dce690/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > End of Talk-GB Digest, Vol 56, Issue 31 > ***************************************
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