On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 at 14:32, Dave F via Talk-GB <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 26/11/2019 12:01, Tony OSM wrote: > > to the preferred prow_ref format Adlington FP 5. > > As previous, this is not the preferred format. The format should be as > supplied by the LA, the organisation which has the *authority* to name > PROWs.
My reading of the original post is that Tony is saying that the Council themselves are inconsistent in how they refer to their PRoWs. In which case, I think we should use the format that is most prevalent on the underlying legal documents (i.e. the Definitive Map and Statement) rather than any electronic working datasets that are produced from these. The onilne map at https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/roads-parking-and-travel/public-rights-of-way/public-rights-of-way-map/ uses the "9-5-FP 23" style numbers, but probably doesn't have any legal force. I can't find any actual Definitive Statements online for Lancashire, but there are what seem to be some Definitive Map extracts in their DMMO register at http://www3.lancashire.gov.uk/corporate/dmmoview/ . These mostly look to just use the "FP 34", "BW 45" numbers, without an explicit parish. My guess would be that the parishes are named in the Definitive Map and Statement, rather than using reference numbers (which are probably an artefact of digitisation). So unless the council has officially adopted the electronic version with the "9-5-FP 23" style numbers as it's legal Definitive Map, we should be looking at accepting parish names in the official reference numbers. The question then is how does the council itself refer to the Rights of Way when using named parishes rather than IDs. What is *their* preferred format? If we can agree on the appropriate prow_ref format to use in OSM, then I can load the GIS data into my tool at https://osm.mathmos.net/prow/progress/ and have it display the refs in the agreed format. Tony, if you've got a CSV file that converts between the ID numbers and named districts/parishes that you could send me, that would be really helpful, whichever format we end up agreeing to use in OSM. It will also automatically produce a table like https://osm.mathmos.net/prow/progress/essex/parishes with the parish names and numbers for anyone to reference. Best wishes, Robert. -- Robert Whittaker _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
