Hi, On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 06:13:39PM +0100, David Earl wrote: > They are universally rural. They are tracks, yes, but formally public > whereas a track will typically be associated with a farm ore similar.
Mostly rural, but not all. There are two in Loughborough that I am aware of - one "Cross Hill Lane": http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=52.756383670302455&lon=-1.2154373874651676&zoom=17&layers=B000F000F The other unnamed, but just labelled as "byway open to all traffic" - on the edge of town, and rather useless as after a while it turns into a private road, no turning room. http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=52.75253955766346&lon=-1.2367663089318803&zoom=17&layers=B000F000F Both are surfaced, and once would have been in the country, of course (like most old roads!). There are many in Suffolk, some tracks, others surfaced, such as http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=52.23996492630855&lon=1.0154108416754053&zoom=17&layers=B000F000F where Swilltub Lane (going North) is a restricted byway, but you can only walk down it as it's all overgrown (in the last 30-40 years or so). Hundred Lane (going East from Swilltub Lane) is a BOAT but indestinguishable from any unclassified road (which it is to the West) apart from a sign saying byway. Byways should be signed in theory, just like a footpath, but might not be of course. Anything labelled "RUPP"[1] is now a byway, since about 2006 (sadly, in my opinion - it's nice to have some strange historic stuff around sometimes). There's an (ex-)RUPP in grey here: http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=52.23587828332072&lon=0.988159603986547&zoom=17&layers=B000F000F I usually label with something like "uk:row=B.O.A.T.", or similar, at least before highway=byway (oxymoron=true? ;-) ) started to be used. Cheers, -- Matthew [1] Road used as a public path _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
