On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:58:43PM -0000, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > > The problem here is who says it's a public right of way. If you ask your > local authority they will bring out there plans which give the details and > reference numbers but these of course exist on OS mapping. Not easy to be > definitive.
The Definitive Map (DM) exists on OS mapping, but the other legal document The Definitive Statement (DS) is purely textual descriptions of each path. Those for Hampshire are on-line at http://www3.hants.gov.uk/row/locating-row/definitive-statement.htm and look very similar to the Oxfordshire ones I've seen at the library. I think it would be possible to take *just* the DS and an on-the-ground survey and have something close-to definitive in itself. This of course raises futher questions :- The DS and DM are closely related, is the DS contaminated by the OS licence, even though it is not a map? By using the DS and a survey, would we just be recreating the DM and somehow infringing the OS copyright? The "Public Footpath" signs will have been placed based on infomation in the DM - do we risk infringing OS copyright by using these to map RoW? s _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
