Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] using council's rights-of-way data ok ?

2010-03-18 Thread Philip Shore
Having taken a closer look at the map there isn't a lot to do south of the river as you have done a pretty thorough job. Some of the non through route fen roads are missing but they are often marked with home made keep-out signs and not that useful anyway. The track running south from Aldreth

Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] using council's rights-of-way data ok ?

2010-03-18 Thread Donald Allwright
When I started mapping a couple of years ago I made a point of surveying all the paths south of the river Ouse in your target area (Cottenham, Willingham, Earith, Haddenham, A10) so you might want to start to the North of the river. However as the weather is warming up I'd be tempted to walk the

Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] using council's rights-of-way data ok ?

2010-03-18 Thread Philip Shore
It's useful to know you've been over that area Tom. I can concentrate my efforts close to home. Somewhere approximately bounded by Cottenham, Willingham, Earith, Haddenham, A10. Aaarg, I have just spotted how few Fenland Roads are mapped when you get out as far as Somersham. :-) Phil. Tom

Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] using council's rights-of-way data ok ?

2010-03-18 Thread Tom Evans
I did some of the paths round the Ouse, north of Fen Drayton. I was mapping just from survey; the trouble is that the RoW status is only marked sometimes, leaving you guessing after you pass the next junction along. I settled for mapping the paths first, and worrying about the status of some bits

Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] using council's rights-of-way data ok ?

2010-03-18 Thread Philip Shore
Thanks David, it would be useful to get a definitive answer. I have just (re)discovered another similar source of data that you could clarify too. There is a list of TRO's for byways in Cambridgeshire listed here: http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/environment/countryside/access/Byway+damage.h

Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] using council's rights-of-way data ok ?

2010-03-18 Thread Barnett, Phillip
Mike said I suppose I should also point out that I have found that waterways traced from NPE are often 20 meters to 50 meters out of place when compared to GPS (they seem to magically become accurate near roads --

Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] using council's rights-of-way data ok ?

2010-03-18 Thread David Earl
On 18/03/2010 06:50, Mike Morrin wrote: > Over the past year, I have walked and mapped all (maybe missed 1km) of > the public footpaths in a polygon bounded by: Arrington, Croydon, > Gamblingay, Gransden Airfield, Croxton, Yelling, Papworth Everard, > Connington, Boxworth, and Bourne. That's brill