Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath reference numbers

2010-11-09 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
On 8 November 2010 14:37, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > I think some discussion of this has come up before (some time ago) but how > many people are tagging footpaths with their council reference numbers? I asked about this previously at: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2010-August/00

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath reference numbers

2010-11-09 Thread Ed Avis
Nick Whitelegg writes: >I do this already to some extent but the only problem is that the comments are >linked to the path's OSM ID. Obviously if the path is split, or deleted and >redrawn, the OSM ID then becomes invalidated so it's tricky to ensure that >comments remain associated with the cor

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath reference numbers

2010-11-08 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 8 November 2010 17:33, Jonathan Bennett wrote: > On 08/11/2010 17:15, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > >> So instead, you could simply reference the path with two lat/long pairs >> and >> maybe some other information: "from (a,b) to (c,d) of type 'footway'". >> From >> that, you can reasonably easily

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath reference numbers

2010-11-08 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 08/11/2010 17:15, Richard Fairhurst wrote: So instead, you could simply reference the path with two lat/long pairs and maybe some other information: "from (a,b) to (c,d) of type 'footway'". From that, you can reasonably easily work out which way(s) are meant. Isn't that how OpenLR works? It'

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath reference numbers

2010-11-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nick Whitelegg wrote: > I do this already to some extent but the only problem is that the > comments are linked to the path's OSM ID. Obviously if the path is > split, or deleted and redrawn, the OSM ID then becomes invalidated > so it's tricky to ensure that comments remain associated with the

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath reference numbers

2010-11-08 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: "Andy Street" To: "Nick Whitelegg" Cc: Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath reference numbers On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 14:37 +, Nick Whitelegg wrote: I think some discussion of this has come up b

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath reference numbers

2010-11-08 Thread Andy Street
On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 14:37 +, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > I think some discussion of this has come up before (some time ago) but how > many people are tagging footpaths with their council reference numbers? > > Reason I ask is that I'm in the process of overhauling Freemap and one thing > I'd l

[Talk-GB] Footpath reference numbers

2010-11-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I think some discussion of this has come up before (some time ago) but how many people are tagging footpaths with their council reference numbers? Reason I ask is that I'm in the process of overhauling Freemap and one thing I'd like to do is allow people to tag footpaths with (perhaps subjectiv