Here’s some info from someone who used to live on Shetland and has visited recently, and is an OSM mapper who isn’t on the list.
Begin forwarded message: > From: John Robert Peterson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Talk-scotland] Shetland-Orkney ferry and NCN 1 > Date: 26 March 2014 18:00:17 GMT > To: Shaun McDonald <[email protected]> > > I'm pretty sure there are issues with ferries around orkney too, last time I > checked, there are 2 ferries that link Orkney to the mainland, and one goes > to aberdeen. > > I sugest someone with proper cycling experience does a proper audit of edits > done by the user in question in the area on the offchance that there is a > pattern. > > JR > > > On 26 March 2014 17:55, John Robert Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > unless there have been some very significant, and budgetarilly unlikely, > changes, there is a ferry from sumburgh to fairisle, but it goes no further. > > There is however a proper big ferry that goes from Lerwick to Aberdeen with a > stop off every second night in Orkney. > > I've been in Orkney many times, but only ever in the middle of the night > while trying to sleep, a bunch of blokes trying down cargo with remarkably > noisy equipment. so I can't comment on the Orkney side. > > > On 26 March 2014 17:20, Shaun McDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > Dunno if you know the answer to this? > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> > > Subject: [Talk-scotland] Shetland-Orkney ferry and NCN 1 > > Date: 26 March 2014 17:19:25 GMT > > To: [email protected] > > > > Hello Scotland, > > > > Someone has pointed out that OSM currently has NCN 1 going by ferry to > > Grutness/Sumburgh: > > > > http://cycle.travel/map?lat=59.8714&lon=-1.2772&zoom=13 > > http://opencyclemap.org/?zoom=11&lat=59.8689&lon=-1.27559&layers=B000 > > > > whereas the ferries actually go to Lerwick. > > > > P2 tells me that the way in question was created by a German mapper last > > summer. I can't see any information anywhere about a Kirkwall-Grutness > > ferry, but then I've never been north of John O'Groats! > > > > Could someone with local knowledge correct/amend as applicable? Better to > > have this section of NCN 1 missing than send people on a non-existent > > ferry, I think. > > > > cheers > > Richard > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-scotland mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-scotland > > > > >
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