Some of the comments on the Android apps thread over on talk got me thinking
about approaches to try and get more of the UK rights of way network done,
particularly by contributors who may not wish to use a full scale editor.
Was thinking of a two stage approach, involving a relatively non techie
person with a smartphone app, and an expert OSM editor with a JOSM plugin. It
could work something like this. Someone could go out for a walk, fire up a
smartphone app, and each time they start walking along a new right of way,
select the right of way type using a simple interface. Their route would be
recorded as a GPX track, and each time they change the current right of way
type, a new trkseg is created, tagged with the right of way type. On
completing their walk they could upload this track to a server.
Then, an expert OSM editor could do the actual data editing, using a JOSM
plugin which downloads these tagged GPX tracks and renders each trkseg in a
different colour depending on the right of way represented by that trkseg.
Expert editors willing to be part of this system could subscribe to an RSS feed
of new GPX uploads in their area.
Any feelings on this?
Nick
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