Re: [Talk-GB] Lancashire prow_ref format (Was: Public Rights of Way - legal vs reality)

2020-05-10 Thread Tony OSM
I agree with Adam. In the published path orders fixed to lamposts etc the written description includes parish, type, number. Sometimes in that order sometimes type, number, parish. There is no consistency. Parish, type, number is likely to be understood by every user of OSM and I have used it

[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM #511 2020-04-28-2020-05-04

2020-05-10 Thread weeklyteam
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 511, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of a lot of things happening in the openstreetmap world: https://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/13118/ Enjoy! Did you know that you can also submit messages for the weeklyOSM? Just log

Re: [Talk-GB] Lancashire prow_ref format (Was: Public Rights of Way - legal vs reality)

2020-05-10 Thread Adam Snape
Hi, There was a discussion on this list about this not long ago. I agree with Rob's preference for parish, type, number as it is more idiomatic and reflects how the routes are most commonly actually referred to in communication. As Rob noted, the council doesn't use the numeric references with

[Talk-GB] Lancashire prow_ref format (Was: Public Rights of Way - legal vs reality)

2020-05-10 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
This may have got lost in the discussion about highway=no, but I'd like to get some feedback on what prow_ref format is best to use in Lancashire. See my previous message below: On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 19:23, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > The format of the Right of Way numbers seems to

Re: [Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way - legal vs reality

2020-05-10 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 19:33, Mike Baggaley via Talk-GB wrote: > >Highway=no seems acceptable to me where a path is permanently physically > >blocked by a building or such-like. We're not serving anyone by directing > >people into wals. I do, however, disagree with its use to tag definitive >