There's an article about it in the latest Ramblers' magazine. The app appears to use OGSB map tiles: it's a bit of a shame that we still don't have decent links with Ramblers at a national level.
Nick W. & I had a number of problems with the path network in Wiltshire a couple of weeks back. Jerry On 15 July 2015 at 10:06, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed Jul 15 09:37:19 2015 GMT+0100, Rob Nickerson wrote: > > Looks interesting. Anyone know more information about this? > > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33532041 > > > The big pathwatch runs until October, is open to both the general public > and ramblers members alike. The aim is to survey paths with a 1km grid > square and upload the results either through the app, or on the website. > > Any square can be chosen, however there are key squares that must be > completed based on a sample of 200 per highway authority. I'm not > convinced by this as rural areas have sparse coverage, and urban areas > have complete coverage. Telford, semi rural has the same number of squares > as Shropshire and Leicestershire, and the lax planning rules caused by the > new towns act will, I am sure, bring up some interesting results. > > I have downloaded the app, not too sure yet, can only highlight a bad > stile, not a good one. > > More here > http://www.ramblers.org.uk/get-involved/join-the-big-pathwatch.aspx > > Key squares here, only visible if not logged in > https://bigpathwatch.ramblers.org.uk/map-of-sample-squares > > Please do sign up, and complete some squares and add to OSM at the same > time. > > Phil (trigpoint ) > > > -- > Sent from my Jolla > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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