On Jan 21, 2008 2:34 PM, Nick Whitelegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I mentally divide things into "objective" and "subjective", and stick > >to the objective stuff for now. So if the walking routes are > >signposted, that would be fine for me, but if they were just a route > >that I knew, then I'd leave it off. > > Maybe we should make up our own walks, in places where it's obvious > someone's mapped a one directional walk, and call them things like "The > OSM Way". > > For example, if you look north of Bournemouth, someone's obviously done a > one-directional walk northwest of Ringwood up towards Shaftesbury which > rather nicely illustrates a potentially interesting walk, linking the New > Forest and the Wiltshire downs, which wouln't be obvious looking at an OS > map. > > I myself have mapped out a route from Petersfield to Winchester which is > obvious in OSM in its mid section (less obvious either end), and visits > two interesting pubs on the way - maybe this could be the "OSM Hampshire > Way" :-)
So the rule is that we can only put in cycle routes if they are signposted, but the signing is sometimes rubbish. So I think there's about three of us now going to join Sustrans specifically to fix the signing on one of the routes near to where I live. I'd say the easiest way to get our preferred walking routes into OSM is to form our own official international signpost-erecting society/charity/whatever, and go round planting evidence of our routes wherever it's needed. That way we can put them in the database with a clear conscience :-) Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
