Richard, This is starting to sound like micro mapping ;-)
Cheers Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Fairhurst [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 13 June 2012 22:48 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Wychavon Way Revised Route > > Steve Brook wrote: > > Worcestershire County and Wychavon District Council have revised the > > route of the Wychavon Way long distance footpath > > Oddly enough that echoes a mapping problem I had last week. We went to > the Llyn Peninsula, north-west Wales, and set out to map part of the Wales > Coast Path. > > There was previously a Llyn Coastal Path (and a Ceredigion Coast Path, an > Anglesey Coast Path, and the best-known one in Pembrokeshire). The LCP > took an inland route at certain points where it would be more enjoyable and > varied for the water. The new WCP seems determined to take the closest > route to the coast - even if that involves walking along an A-road footpath for > several miles. There are new WCP signs in some places, but by no means > everywhere; many of the LCP signs remain, but are badly faded and haven't > been renewed for several years; and there are brand new, expensive kissing > gates and stiles that clearly mark an intention to send the WCP along the > coast... but as yet, no signs to accompany them. > > Basically, it made me hanker for following the NCN through Basingstoke or > Newport. Anyone who has ever tried to follow the NCN through Basingstoke > or Newport will realise this is not a commendation. > > I took the view that we should "skate to where the puck's going, not where it > is now", and have mapped the WCP as a 95%-probability route following the > coast through the new gates, even when the signs haven't gone up yet. It > seems almost certain that the LCP will be subsumed into this; that no-one will > choose to walk the LCP rather than the WCP in this area; and I therefore > haven't preserved these inland braids. But I'm aware a case could be made > for the opposite! > > cheers > Richard > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Wychavon- > Way-Revised-Route-tp5712613p5712617.html > Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
