On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 13:02 +0100, Philip Barnes wrote: > On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 10:00 +0100, Robert Norris wrote: > > > > I've added my 2 penneth. > > > > Maybe we should gather more samples of signs - e.g. to show differing > > Councils styles (and then hopefully agreed tagging) to give better > > guidelines. > > > > I've have a look my photos but I think I tend to delete these types of > > pictures after use. > > > > If I remember, next time I'm out walking I may take more such type of > > pictures. > > > > There may some samples on flickr / whatever (with friendly copyrights) we > > could use. > > > They do vary between highway authorities, but well worth getting some > photos of samples. The one thing waymarks have in common, and I can only > claim knowledge of England and Wales here is that a public footpath has > yellow arrows, public bridleways have blue arrows and the hardest to > find of all are red arrows, used on B.O.T.A.Ts.
I passed an orange BOAT waymarker yesterday morning but didn't bother to photograph it. Sod's Law that this was the first email I read when I got home! > I will get some of Shropshire, Leicestershire and counties inbetween. > Can also pop over the border and see if see if I can find some > bi-lingual ones somewhere. Wrexham borough which is very close, use > symbols with no words. As people are expressing an interest in collecting examples of their local waymarking I've started a new wiki page[1] to collate them. I've kicked things off with the Hants CC waymarkers that I have at home and will add fingerposts and other signs once I've dug through my photos. Cheers, Andy [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom/Identifying_Rights_of_Way _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
