Re: [Talk-GB] Resurrecting the 'find the missing paths for 2026' project

2019-10-02 Thread Tony OSM
Hi I've been using MapThe Paths for the last year to add my local ROW's to OSM - I find it a great help. If we can get all of the data into OSM it will enable all ROW users to identify in one source of ROWs and NOT.ROWs. This is important as I have identified several paths which perhaps

[Talk-GB] Resurrecting the 'find the missing paths for 2026' project

2019-10-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
David wrote: >In other threads, I sense quite a strong lobby for only mapping rights of way that are so marked on the ground and ignoring any designation that only appears in a map. That's news to me! Given that you say "strong" I must assume that you refer to something other than talk-gb(?).

Re: [Talk-GB] Resurrecting the 'find the missing paths for 2026' project

2019-10-01 Thread Nick Whitelegg
The main aim, though, of this project is to investigate, using the historical maps, historical rights of way for the point of view of gathering evidence to re-open them before 2026. A possible side-effect of this is to locate new paths to map for OSM. Such paths would not, of course, be

Re: [Talk-GB] Resurrecting the 'find the missing paths for 2026' project

2019-10-01 Thread David Woolley
On 30/09/2019 18:25, Nick Whitelegg wrote: I made a start on this about a year ago, here's a quck mock-up showing council data in colours and OSM paths shown in white as a 'tippex' effect. This allows the identification of historical 'F.P' footpaths on the historical maps which do not

Re: [Talk-GB] Resurrecting the 'find the missing paths for 2026' project

2019-10-01 Thread Philip Barnes
See https://www.ramblers.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-us/dont-lose-your-way-2026.aspx https://www.oss.org.uk/what-do-we-fight-for/footpaths-rights-of-way/the-deregulation-act/ Historically we have been able to claim lost rights of way by providing user evidence and have them added to the

[Talk-GB] Resurrecting the 'find the missing paths for 2026' project

2019-09-30 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Was just thinking whether it would be worth us (as in OSM UK) resurrecting the 'missing paths for 2026' project? A quick reminder - we have until 2026 to record historical rights of way which have fallen out of use in recent times, and the combination of OSM, council data and historical