There are certainly places where the rights-of-way as signed don't match what appears on e.g. OS Landranger - I was in one south of York just a couple of days ago. There in fact the OS data (including OS Opendata / older OS maps which have been traced into OSM) doesn't match what's on the ground now - a former airfield has been reclaimed for farming and other purposes and the former airfield's service roads don't always exist at all any more. There's also a public footpath that abruptly stops at the River Wharfe.
Maybe a compromise might be (assuming the licence is suitable) importing only the "designation" tag for entirely new footways (i.e. without a highway tag at all)? That way there's no danger of general purpose map users (which would tend to be using maps based on "highway" tags) being misled, and it would still be possible for people seeking out these paths to find them and survey them. One place where a PRoW import could help is where people have added data remotely such as Amazon-traced service roads, tracks and driveways. This doesn't avoid the need for a survey, but it does add another dimension to the traced data. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
