Re: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths - new site focusing on OSM UK footpath mapping

2018-06-09 Thread Adam Snape
HI Nick, Great job. It will be a really useful tool :) I echo Rob's request for a higher level of zoom if that is at all possible. I'd also suggest looking at some of the excluded 'urban' areas. Some of the unitary authorities and Metropolitan Boroughs (particularly in Pennine England) are more r

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpaths - search for the missing ones

2018-06-09 Thread Adam Snape
A very interesting dataset, Just a belated comment regarding the footpaths on the c.1900 maps. We do need to be careful not to infer too much about public rights. It is only modern (1960s onwards) OS maps which have shown definitive rights of way (in OSM terms designation=public_footpath). Older O

Re: [Talk-GB] Two new tools: 'Ghosts' and 'Survey Me'

2018-06-09 Thread Artur R. Czechowski
Hi Robert, So, I did a partial walk through my area and I have a couple of questions. How to report false positives to the 3rd party data? Tait's Pharmacy (BD18 3HZ) certainly does not exist at mentioned location. Neither there is any track it existed before or would be exist soon. http://robert.m

Re: [Talk-GB] Two new tools: 'Ghosts' and 'Survey Me'

2018-06-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
A couple other "Ghosts": - Total petrol stations (I'm almost certain this brand has gone now but struggled to find definitive proof) - The army recruitment shops - can't remember the name (Brian will know as he mentions this occasionaly) *Rob* _

Re: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths - new site focusing on OSM UK footpath mapping

2018-06-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Nick, I like this. Spent some time last night adding designations to existing OSM paths using one of the OGL datasets. A couple of questions: 1. Do you have a combined ROW dataset (bringing all the rowmaps files together)? If so could you host this somewhere. 2. Is it possible to all

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpaths - search for the missing ones

2018-06-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi all, I received an email yesterday from Chris at National Library of Scotland / GB1900 project. All public domain links so reposting it here: 1.I was curious myself to see how the distribution of footpaths looked a century ago based on the GB1900 abbreviations so I mapped the data I sent y

[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM #411 2018-05-29-2018-06-04

2018-06-09 Thread weeklyteam
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 411, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/10415/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM? who?: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages

Re: [Talk-GB] MapThePaths - new site focusing on OSM UK footpath mapping

2018-06-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Quick update: most of Wales now added. Also I have made one or two changes to the JavaScript code so please do Ctrl-F5 if you want to reload the site, otherwise the browser may use old code and it may not work. Apologies for the top posting by the way, it's an unfortunate limitation of this