> Can you give some examples of how such things are tagged? It might be possible to work something out, but parsing something based on the description would be difficult.
*scenic=yes* but such tagging is rather subjective by its nature and extremely scarce in the UK: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/keys/scenic#overview Urban example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/241617443 Regards, *Paul* On 2 November 2017 at 07:49, Andy Townsend <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/31/17 19:04, Bob Hawkins wrote: > > 1. The portrayal of barriers: we know kissing gates are not rendered in > OSM but are rendered in Andy Townsend’s map. In neither case, though, do > barriers stand out strongly enough, in my opinion. I created coloured > images of a gate, kissing gate and stile for use with my Garmin eTrex > Legend many years ago for this reason. I continue to use them now in Locus > Map on my smartphone. I wish more attention would be applied; to place an > appropriate image within a square, even, so that they are more visible. > > > My use of "the smallest icons I could get away with" for barriers was a > deliberate style decision; by all means try differently coloured or larger > ones. There's a "soup to nuts" set of instructions at > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:SomeoneElse/ > Ubuntu_1604_tileserver_load and once you've done that you can play around > with icons and see how they work with everything else. > > 2. Permissive paths: I do not understand “*permissive paths need showing; > Andy's cartography does not yet do this but again this is something I have > experience with.” *Woodhouse Farm in Ipsden, South Oxfordshire has > provided a permissive footpath and permissive bridleways. Both are shown > on Andy’s map (https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=15&lat= > 53.11419&lon=-1.31171): > > > That's a different area - unfortunately you need to click "permalink" at > the top right to get the URL to update (arguably that's a bug - if anyone > knows of an "automatic permalink" plugin for leaflet I'll fix it). > > the footpath is overlaid with a pink dashed line and the bridleway is > shown as others, simply. I wonder what is the intention so far as > permissive paths are concerned? Woodhouse Farm has done walkers and horse > riders a tremendous service by making these paths available. The > alternative PRoW route would have to be through woodland, obscuring > otherwise beautiful views, which we can enjoy so much now. > > > I think the "permissive paths" comment meant that I don't have a specific > rendering for any "permissive" designation (which is correct - they'll just > appear as grey). There's certainly an argument to be had about displaying > these but I'm not sure what signifier you'd want to use (OS and Nick's fork > use dash length for "type of path"; my original uses colour, and there > aren't that many colours left). > > 3. Writing of beautiful views, my final item concerns scenic paths: I > have commented elsewhere that I wish paths with scenic views could be > treated like the road atlases I remember where a green ribbon was placed > alongside such roads. I have been unaware that “description” tags have > been used in OSM in the same way. I wonder, though, what purpose such a > tag achieves, or could achieve? > > Can you give some examples of how such things are tagged? It might be > possible to work something out, but parsing something based on the > description would be difficult. > > Best Regards, > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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