On 27/08/2010 11:56, Ian Spencer wrote:
Had a quick look at Nick's current rendering which is a good stab as
you said. The thing that sticks out is that there are very few
footpaths rendered as public footpaths. It is unsurprising that this
happens because Potlatch et al have defaults when you select public
footpath that just implement footpath. The biggest job for any
reliable map would be to get mappers to properly identify which paths
are probably public footpaths (said in such ways because even OS deny
being reliable for that determination). THis is where map rendering
becomes an art and where a decision gets taken as to whether to render
footpaths as public footpaths unless...
To sort that out, you'd need a tool like keepright to highlight
footpaths without access tags (I think that is where the legal status
is held). In the UK any signposted public footpath would have this or
permissive way, unless you then get into something else that needs
mapping for walkers - open access areas.
I think that we've been around this loop before:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bLMCjOWz1lsJ:lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2009-April/003720.html+freemap+designation+site:lists.openstreetmap.org&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
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