Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-17 Thread Andy Townsend
On 17/08/2015 23:25, Rob Nickerson wrote: So far there is little interest to do this on the OSM default render style which seems odd to me given how much fuss there has been on this list to recent changes to the footway/path style (over the last year)! There's no interest to do this in the

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-17 Thread Andy Townsend
On 17/08/2015 21:43, Rob Nickerson wrote: ... In regards to designation=*, are we now the only country that makes a distinction between paths you have a legal right to walk on and any other path that might exist because people happen to walk over the land thus leaving a desire line path? Hi

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
Thanks Andy, Fully aware of access land, undocumented rights of way and permissive paths. I just need to remember to be careful of what I write on this mailing list (but I was trying not to write an essay). I'm surprised if this is just England and Wales as I would have thought some other

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-17 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/17/2015 3:25 PM, Rob Nickerson wrote: I'm surprised if this is just England and Wales as I would have thought some other country has some way of documenting paths in a legal context and as such this may be relevant for other countries I'm not aware of any countries which quite have the

Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-17 Thread Dudley Ibbett
Hi My thoughts as follows: This is really going to be something for a UK specific rendering. It is actually quite useful as a QC exercise to rendering footways/paths with and without a designation tag. Something I do on my own Garmin map. The presumption on my part being that ideally we

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2015-08-17 Thread Fozy 81
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Re: [Talk-GB] Paths and Footways

2015-08-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
Thanks Dudley. I'm not sure that I agree that this is UK specific. We render roads according to their status (motorway to unclassified), and as such I see potential to do this for paths irrespective of country. In regards to designation=*, are we now the only country that makes a distinction