Re: [Talk-GB] Local walking routes

I think that walking routes are much more flexible than (say) cycling routes, so there would be every prospect that umpteen different sets of overlapping routes could be created by different people. So I'd probably advise against putting them in the database unless they are waymarked. Richard On

Re: [Talk-GB] Local walking routes

David Ellams wrote: > With one exception, the routes themselves are not > signed/marked (though they follow waymarked paths). Don't tag them unless they're waymarked, _unless_ either they're proposed to be waymarked (in which case you could do so with a "state=proposed" tag on the relation), or

Re: [Talk-GB] Local walking routes

Hi As someone who does quite a bit of work on adding paths (including public rights of way) and walking routes to OSM my personal view would be to add relations only for routes which are either (a) waymarked as a route, and/or (b) carry a specific name e.g. "Little Sodding Millennium Walk".

[Talk-GB] Post box for franked mail only

Our local delivery office has a post box which can only be used for franked mail. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:amenity%3Dpost_box#Franked_Mail_Only hasn't really come to a conlusion as to hwo these shaould be noted. What are people using David ___

Re: [Talk-GB] Post box for franked mail only

On 05/08/2010 17:50, David Groom wrote: Our local delivery office has a post box which can only be used for franked mail. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:amenity%3Dpost_box#Franked_Mail_Only hasn't really come to a conlusion as to hwo these shaould be noted. What are people using

Re: [Talk-GB] Local walking routes

On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 10:44:45 +0100 Richard Mann wrote: Hello Richard, > probably advise against putting them in the database unless they are > waymarked. There are named routes that aren't waymarked. Near me, for example, there's the Little Dart Ridge and Valley Walk. I'd be inclined to add th

Re: [Talk-GB] Local walking routes

If I go into my local bookshop, I would probably find at least a dozen books of local walks, all different. They'll have given each walk a name, sometimes fancy, sometimes simple. OK so I live in a bit of a tourist hotspot, but I think it has to be something a bit more formal than just having a nam

Re: [Talk-GB] Yet more musical chairs updates.

On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Dave F. wrote: > Would it be possible to turn these circles off at lower zoom levels? > Personally I like to double click on the map to zoom in at these levels > as it centres the city I'm interested in & so I can then use the bar to > zoom accurately to the specifi

Re: [Talk-GB] Post box for franked mail only

David Groom writes: >Our local delivery office has a post box which can only be used for franked >mail. I use mailtype=franked. Tagwatch shows a few variants of this: (search for 'franked') -- Ed Avis __