Hello Jerry (and everyone else who's replied), Ok thanks for that.
The council concerned in my case is Wiltshire. I am keen to not have the incorrectly tagged as "designation=public_footpath" way remaining incorrectly tagged in OSM, for the simple reason it's incorrect. However it doesn't look like I can use the Wiltshire data on Barry's site as evidence for this. What I will do, therefore, is next time in the area, walk the "footpath" again to check that there are no ROW signs. If there are not, I think that's evidence enough that the designation tag can be removed. I obviously mis-interpreted a ROW sign last time I was there as indicating that path. When HCC released their data ISTR the feeling was a bit different and it was basically ok to add it to OSM (or at least it hadn't been discussed in length). Therefore I think I used HCC data to add a missing segment of path - so it looks like I'll have to chop that one out. Nick -----"sk53.osm" <[email protected]> wrote: ----- To: Nick Whitelegg <[email protected]> From: "sk53.osm" <[email protected]> Date: 06/06/2013 10:59AM Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Current status on UK Council footpath data Hi Nick, We have Open Data locally for Nottingham ProW (significant because the city was exempt from maintaining a definitive map until recently). So far all I have done is added ref information to paths already mapped. Even with open data the situation is still confusing: for instance a footpath described as a ProW on a statement on the ground has not yet been recognised and may require the dispute to be settled in the High Court. I got distracted by shops & pubs, which are nearing a reasonable degree of completion. However the experience gained of using open data to drive mapping surveys convinces me that by far and away the best use of open data is to drive targeted surveys for particular groups of data. By just looking for shops I've done real surveys in parts of Nottingham which hitherto were mainly arm-chair tracing. I'm sure a similar approach with ProW data would pay dividends: even if just to check where footpaths/bridleways join roads which would enable quick checking of signage. One thing which concerns me is the 'private' release of Open Data. A number of counties have given ProW data to persistent pesterers (not meant perjoratively) apparently under a suitable license. I'd far rather see this published on the official websites of the Highway Authorities, not least because then one is reasonably sure that they have checked with OSGB re. OS data. Best wishes, Jerry Clough On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Nick Whitelegg <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Just wondering what the current state of what we can do with the UK council footpath open data is? Generally I don't just copy the data into OSM anyway: it's more fun to survey :-) However I'm wondering whether we can do this? 1. Use the council data to verify whether a footpath surveyed by GPS is actually a public footpath, in cases when the waymarking is ambiguous and we "think" it's a right of way but may or may not be; 2. Removing the designation tag from a footpath surveyed from GPS before the council data was available. I've discovered that a path I surveyed in 2010 is not actually a right of way, according to Barry Cornelius' rownmaps.com. Thanks, Nick _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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