Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-02-20 Thread Mike Harris
n forward? Mike Harris -Original Message- From: Robert Vollmert [mailto:rvollmert-li...@gmx.net] Sent: 20 February 2009 11:25 To: Ed Loach Cc: osm Openstreetmap Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work? On Feb 20, 2009, at 11:14, Ed Loach wrote: > In the wiki,

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-02-20 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Feb 20, 2009, at 11:14, Ed Loach wrote: > In the wiki, Relation:route[1] suggests network of uk_ldp for the UK > long distance path network, but Walking_Routes[2] suggests > iwn/nwn/rwn/lwn for network types. It looks like the uk_ldp goes > back over a year to October 2007, so there are probabl

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-02-20 Thread Ed Loach
> I suspect 2009 will see the emergence of proper OSM > walking/hiking maps so > its time we got our act together. > > Please pull the page apart and add new stuff. Ideally try to > keep content > and ideas in the same sort of format as the Cycle Route ones so > that we have > some synergy and we

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-01-20 Thread Someoneelse
I don't think that the Pennine Bridleway is complete yet (they haven't decided where the northern part of the route will go). Where I have seen it signposted (from Derbyshire up towards Lancs) it seems to go in the same direction is the Pennine Way but runs on mostly separate bridleways. Thes

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-01-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frankie Roberto wrote: > There also seems to be the Pennine Cycleway > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennine_Cycleway), which I've > never seen signposted. It's Sustrans National Route 68, the whole of which (well, except for two alternative braids) is lovingly mapped on OSM, from Derby to Berwi

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-01-20 Thread Frankie Roberto
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) < ajrli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > A relation should quite happily hold all of the bits and pieces for the > Pennine Bridleway, it wouldn't really be doing its intended job if it > didn't. I've already done most of the Pennine W

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-01-19 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Am 19.01.2009 14:17, Mike Harris: > I have made some edits on your page as a starter for 10 - but feel that I > should have probably put comments somewhere else. Could you advise me on > protocol and procedure as I would be more than happy to contribute to this > discussion. Don't hesitate, just d

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-01-19 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
tended job if it didn't. Cheers Andy >-Original Message- >From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk- >boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Someoneelse >Sent: 19 January 2009 3:28 PM >To: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wik

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-01-19 Thread Someoneelse
If it would help to tie the Cleveland Way relation together I can offer a series of 300m-separated waypoints in OSGB format for the section between Helmsley (actually from the spur at the bottom of White Horse Bank) and Guisborough. No tracklog though - it is from an old GPS with no data cable

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-01-19 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
ts)'; >talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work? > >The UK-only page seems to have no text. Why don't we join the two pages >into >one and use Andy's new one, which does have some text on it and is more >interna

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-01-19 Thread Mike Harris
19 January 2009 10:44 To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists); talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work? > -Original Message- > From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk- > boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Andy Robinson (

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-01-19 Thread Mike Harris
I would be more than happy to contribute to this discussion. Thanks! Mike Harris -Original Message- From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [mailto:ajrli...@googlemail.com] Sent: 19 January 2009 10:26 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work? I

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-01-19 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Gregory Williams [mailto:gregory.willi...@purplegeodesoftware.co.uk] wrote: >Sent: 19 January 2009 10:44 AM >To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists); talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work? > >> -Original Message-

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-01-19 Thread Gregory Williams
> -Original Message- > From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk- > boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Andy Robinson (blackadder- > lists) > Sent: 19 January 2009 10:26 > To: talk@openstreetmap.org > Subject: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some w

[OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

2009-01-19 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
I started a stub http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Walking_Routes based upon the Cycle Routes page. I hope this doesn't duplicate anything but I could not find a landing page on the wiki to cover long distance walking and hiking routes generally. Needs work to pull stuff together and the UK long

[OSM-talk] Walking routes made up of OSM ways on Freemap

2008-08-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Have added experimental, prototype functionality to Freemap to allow users to create walking routes by selecting multiple OSM ways. If you go to http://www.free-map.org.uk/freemap/index.php?lat=51.05&lon=-0.72&zoom=14 try clicking on footpaths with CTRL held down, and you'll be

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking routes and OSM (again)

2008-06-29 Thread Igor Brejc
Ben Laenen wrote: > What about routes that don't follow roads? I've been on walking routes > that send you straight through a grass field, or through a lot of trees > with no visible path, just marks on the trees. > > Greetings > Ben > > highway = footway? Igor -- http://igorbrejc.net ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking routes and OSM (again)

2008-06-28 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Jun 27, 2008, at 16:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> a) Get the user to click each way in turn on the slippy map. Each >>> way >>> then >>> gets highlighted (possible via OpenLayers Vector layer). When >>> finished, >>> user clicks "Done" and can add any further comments. This should be

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking routes and OSM (again)

2008-06-27 Thread Ben Laenen
On Friday 27 June 2008, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > a) Get the user to click each way in turn on the slippy map. Each way > then gets highlighted (possible via OpenLayers Vector layer). When > finished, user clicks "Done" and can add any further comments. This > should be fairly easy to implement - and

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking routes and OSM (again)

2008-06-27 Thread Michael Collinson
At 03:57 PM 6/27/2008, Nick Whitelegg wrote: >Hello everyone, > >Richard's comments the other day have got me strongly interested in >implementing tightly-bound (to OSM ways) walking routes in Freemap. There >are a couple of UI ways in which this could be implemented: > >a) Get the user to click ea

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking routes and OSM (again)

2008-06-27 Thread simon
>> a) Get the user to click each way in turn on the slippy map. Each way >> then >> gets highlighted (possible via OpenLayers Vector layer). When finished, >> user clicks "Done" and can add any further comments. This should be >> fairly >> easy to implement - and some of the code (detecting the cl

Re: [OSM-talk] Walking routes and OSM (again)

2008-06-27 Thread Rory McCann
Nick Whitelegg wrote: > Richard's comments the other day have got me strongly interested in > implementing tightly-bound (to OSM ways) walking routes in Freemap. There > are a couple of UI ways in which this could be implemented: This would be a great thing to have. However it doesn't have to be

[OSM-talk] Walking routes and OSM (again)

2008-06-27 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Richard's comments the other day have got me strongly interested in implementing tightly-bound (to OSM ways) walking routes in Freemap. There are a couple of UI ways in which this could be implemented: a) Get the user to click each way in turn on the slippy map. Each way then g

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-23 Thread Igor Brejc
Nick Whitelegg wrote: > This looks like a cool idea. One thing that's kind of been on my mind for > some time is a custom walkers' application which makes use of OSM data - > there are many proprietary/shareware apps designed for walkers (route > planning, 3D terrain preview etc) which use propr

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-23 Thread Gregory
I have used the route tag which I think is approved. route=Lanchester Valley Way route=Battle of Neville's Cross I saw some signs, I guess they are walking routes. They may be interesting but I wouldn't say the best route to get to the end. How about route_quality= (very muddy, maintained path, pav

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-22 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On Jan 22, 2008, at 13:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Nick Whitelegg wrote: >>> >>> TBH I would be fairly dubious about tagging any non-waymarked >>> walks/cycle rides as routes, let alone ones of my own devising. This >>> is "interpretation" which should be kept out of the largely >>> factual

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-22 Thread grungelborz
> Robert Vollmert wrote: > But for that purpose, people can use gps-tour.info, right? OSM would > be interesting by allowing to present recommended walks, etc. as a > sequence of OSM ways. But this data probably would better go into a > separate database. > > I'm sure there's an opportunity f

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-22 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Jan 22, 2008, at 13:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Nick Whitelegg wrote: >> >> TBH I would be fairly dubious about tagging any non-waymarked >> walks/cycle rides as routes, let alone ones of my own devising. This >> is "interpretation" which should be kept out of the largely >> factual OSM.

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-22 Thread grungelborz
> Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > TBH I would be fairly dubious about tagging any non-waymarked > walks/cycle rides as routes, let alone ones of my own devising. This > is "interpretation" which should be kept out of the largely factual OSM. The data might not fit into the OSM but its still useful.

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-21 Thread Thomas Wood
On Jan 21, 2008 10:33 AM, Andy Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it's the latter, the same as for cycling "routes" being the > meta, rather than the physical ("cycleway"). I've thought about this > before but I never followed it through. I really think that they > cycling stuff works well,

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-21 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>In many countries footpaths are numbered (but a trip to the local library is >normally needed in the UK to get hold of them for public footpaths) so I can >see that following a method similar to the cycle network should work well >but might be a little more difficult to visualise in the UK and p

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-21 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Andy Allan wrote: >Sent: 21 January 2008 10:34 AM >To: Nick Whitelegg >Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes? > >On Jan 21, 2008 10:19 AM, Nick Whitelegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >> >Also walking routes? This would be good news.

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-21 Thread Andy Allan
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

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-21 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>I don't know what our end-game is with subjective stuff (e.g. rating >pubs), maybe in the future it'll end up in OSM or a sister project. Freemap perhaps if not OSM itself? Nick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-21 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>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'

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-21 Thread Andy Allan
On Jan 21, 2008 12:33 PM, Richard Fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > > Talking of walking routes in a more general sense , i.e. not official long > > distance paths but a favourite route/circuit e.g. the Old Dungeon > > Ghyll-Pike o'Blisco-Crinkle Crags-Band-Old Dungeo

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nick Whitelegg wrote: > Talking of walking routes in a more general sense , i.e. not official long > distance paths but a favourite route/circuit e.g. the Old Dungeon > Ghyll-Pike o'Blisco-Crinkle Crags-Band-Old Dungeon Ghyll route in the Lake > District (excellent last day of last year's mapping

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-21 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>I think it's the latter, the same as for cycling "routes" being the >meta, rather than the physical ("cycleway"). I've thought about this >before but I never followed it through. I really think that they >cycling stuff works well, and it could easily be replicated into >walking by using the idea o

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-21 Thread Jo
Andy Allan wrote: > On Jan 21, 2008 10:19 AM, Nick Whitelegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Also walking routes? This would be good news. I started with >>> walking (hiking) route around Nuremberg. What are the >>> recommended relation tags for walking routes? >>> >> Do you mean walk

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-21 Thread Andy Allan
On Jan 21, 2008 10:19 AM, Nick Whitelegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Also walking routes? This would be good news. I started with > >walking (hiking) route around Nuremberg. What are the > >recommended relation tags for walking routes? > > Do you mean walking routes as in paths, or walking rou

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-21 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>Also walking routes? This would be good news. I started with >walking (hiking) route around Nuremberg. What are the >recommended relation tags for walking routes? Do you mean walking routes as in paths, or walking routes as in a specific route you follow for a day's walk? The former would be

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-21 Thread Nick Whitelegg
On Monday 21 Jan 2008 07:42, Karl Eichwalder wrote: > > The same questions apply to cycle and walking routes, but they are > > rendered already on Andy's map. I'll see what happens when two/three > > routes use the same ways there. > > Also walking routes? This would be good news. I started with

Re: [OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-21 Thread Jo
Karl Eichwalder wrote: >> The same questions apply to cycle and walking routes, but they are >> rendered already on Andy's map. I'll see what happens when two/three >> routes use the same ways there. >> > > Also walking routes? This would be good news. I started with > walking (hiking) route

[OSM-talk] walking routes?

2008-01-20 Thread Karl Eichwalder
> The same questions apply to cycle and walking routes, but they are > rendered already on Andy's map. I'll see what happens when two/three > routes use the same ways there. Also walking routes? This would be good news. I started with walking (hiking) route around Nuremberg. What are the recomm