Oops... sorry one or two editing errors in the last paragraph. I meant to say:
"They [the non-expert user] select ROW type and path surface via a nice interface, and then a tagged GPX trace is generated, *with trksegs tagged with ROW designation and surface* (which was done by the first version of the app anyway). This is then uploaded to the MapThePaths server, and volunteer expert users *are alerted*. Said expert user then downloads the GPX trace and, *using the tags in the trksegs of the GPX* then edits in JOSM, perhaps via a JOSM plugin - or even directly in the MapThePaths web app. (I am possibly thinking of adding way creation into the MapThePaths web app anyway, time depending)." Nick ________________________________ From: Nick Whitelegg Sent: 13 May 2020 18:08 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Rights of way mapping - making it easy for newcomers to OSM (perhaps!) Hi, Just to continue with the theme of rights of way mapping, I've been noticing that there are still large tracts of England and Wales away from the 'honeypot' areas with little or now ROW mapping at all meaning there's still quite a big job to be done. As you may remember I have been developing a companion app to MapThePaths. In the first version of this (around two years ago) I experimented with auto-converting GPX traces to OSM ways. However I was dissatisfied with the results, the ways generated were really rather nasty and I ended up having to prettify them significantly in JOSM afterwards, rendering the auto-creation facility a little pointless. Consequently later versions of the app have focused on merely presenting the council and OSM data overlaid (like the website), with only limited editing facilities, to change the designation of a path. However (and I may have mentioned this before, it's been a while) I am wondering about a 'two-user' approach in which a new user merely does the GPX survey, using an easy to use UI (a refined version of the MapThePaths app with the UI re-designed by someone more versed in UX than myself). They select ROW type and path surface via a nice interface, and then a tagged GPX trace is generated (which was done by the first version of the app anyway). This is then uploaded to the MapThePaths server, and volunteer expert users. Said expert user then downloads the GPX trace and then edits in JOSM, perhaps via a JOSM plugin - or even directly in the MapThePaths web app. (I am possibly thinking of adding way creation into the MapThePaths web app anyway, time depending). Any thoughts? Thanks, Nick
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