Hi Nick, I went out doing a bit of footpath surveying the other day & ended up doing several submissions to the county council website: mainly about missing signage. Also rather irritating was that a couple of paths marked on (a recent) OS map do not exist, so one would want to feedback to them. So I buy strongly into your use case .
However, I think the crucial thing is what I have not seen in any council open data and that is not just signage, but stiles, gates etc. As most of these are actually owned by relevant landowners I suspect that OSM is by far-and-away the most likely source for decent information about their location etc. (Modern accessible kissing gates etc excepted as many of these will, at the very least, received subventions from council funds.) So broadly speaking I think this has direct OSM relevance. I think my concern would be that it might be too UK (or even England and Wales) centric for a more general OSM audience. The model elsewhere in Europe AFAIK is that trail marking & maintenance is largely carried out by volunteer organisations like the GR and Club Vosgien<http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_vosgien>folk in France, the SAW <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweizer_Wanderwege> in Switzerland, and even very local ones, such as the Mythenfreunde<http://www.grossermythen.ch/>. I know some clubs in the UK have a long history of both path marking and controlling path status, but I doubt if they have the depth of local knowledge which exists in the continental volunteer organisations. Thats my 2 p; I better get back to doing synopses for my proposed presentation topics. Regards, Jerry On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Nick Whitelegg <nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk>wrote: > Hi, > > I'm aiming to submit a couple of presentation ideas before the end of > tomorrow and have written up a couple of submissions. > However one - perhaps the most interesting - isn't directly OSM related, > though it is focused on open council data. > > The idea is "FixMyPaths" - a nationwide footpath problem fixing system, > API and smartphone app making use of the open council footpath data, rather > like FixMyStreet but focusing on rights of way data. > I've mentioned this on here a couple of times already. > > Since it's not to do with OSM data directly would this be appropriate for > SOTM? I ask as it might be interesting to some attendees. > > If not, not to worry - I'll submit my other idea. > > Thanks, > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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