Re: [Talk-GB] UK Rights of Way - WikiProject

2012-05-07 Thread Chris Hill
On 07/05/12 10:34, Jonathan Harley wrote: On 06/05/12 17:22, Andrew M. Bishop wrote: Andy Streetm...@andystreet.me.uk writes: On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 14:32 +0100, Andrew Chadwick wrote: I'd agree that generic consumers will struggle with highway=path, designation=* but that is a wider OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Rights of Way - WikiProject

2012-05-07 Thread Stephen Colebourne
As a relatively new mapper, two things stand out to me. 1) What Potlatch offers will be used. That means h=footway/cycleway/bridleway/track will be used over h=path 2) The footway/cycleway/bridleway classification scheme makes perfect sense to me. Any path I see I in town I can easily classify

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Rights of Way - WikiProject

2012-05-07 Thread Robert Norris
On a slightly different tangent, how if at all do we have have timed restrictions on access types? As the other day I was walking around the Ridgeway: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.422242618282993lon=-1.8314579782714844zoom=15layers=B000FTF 1. Some byways have permissions of no

Re: [Talk-GB] Designation: should we begin using prefixes

2012-05-07 Thread Jason Cunningham
I believe these tags should contain something along the lines of 'uk', 'sco' etc. Not because I'd wish the prefix to show the region, but because the designations are unique and need I believe the tags need to be unique. So for an Area of Outstanding Beauty resulting from UK created legislation

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Rights of Way - WikiProject

2012-05-07 Thread Jason Cunningham
And on another slight different tangent, I've noticed a lot of 'implied surfaces' in both versions eg *Please note*: omitting the surfacehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surface =* tag implies it *is unpaved* What's the background for suggesting not providing a surface tag will result in an