Hello, I have been adding to OSM for about 18 months but more active in recent weeks. I have requested the PRoW from Durham County Council, they currently have not released their data but do have it electronically, just not publicly available to download yet. Their response was more postive than I expected they were looking into it already and were hoping to have a more official response before Xmas (haven't yet).
I have added several footpaths locally but I am often left wondering how to tag these or how to break them into sections. I have followed the guidelines at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Tagging_Guidelines but should I tag the footpath with the local authority reference which would aid logging the path to the Council if problems like FixMyPaths<http://www.free-map.org.uk/hampshire/>, if so how? The other question is do I add the footpath exactly as the Council & Ordnance Survey have recorded it or amend it, if I know it is incorrect on the ground. Currently I have added it as per my own GPX tracks and local knowledge which is more accurate, but officially the PRoW isn't recorded as I have added it to OSM. Do I continue as I have, add both tagged differently or some other way? Finally should I split the path I have added if it is recorded as two separate paths on the definitive maps. I'm sure this must of been discussed somewhere before and I have missed it? *PRoW from OS:* I read Bill Chadwick's mention of hopefully one day the OS would release national paths as Open Data. I don't think that will happen soon, as part of the OS Insight program they were recently testing a new product that included all footpaths in vector format. This will be a commercial product, so unlikely they will be releasing it as Open Data themselves. Thanks Steven -- www.stevenhorner.com <http://www.stevenhorner.com> @stevenhorner <http://twitter.com/stevenhorner>
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