W On 29 September 2017 at 14:35, Bob Hawkins <bobhawk...@waitrose.com> wrote:
> I should be interested to learn the general consensus regarding definitive > alignments of Public Rights of Way and paths actually walked, and whether > contributors have similar predicaments to mine. I have two cases in > Shiplake, Oxfordshire: > 1. Shiplake FP 37 Footpath #528052488 > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/528052488> Changeset #52405541 > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/52405541> > I had labelled the straight line path to the kissing gate before the > railway as Shiplake FP 37, originally. Since devoting my time to adding > PRoW information in the Oxfordshire Chilterns and using Oxfordshire County > Council’s Countryside Access Map, I have become aware of official path > alignments. I pondered long and hard over this issue. I decided, finally, > that it would be incorrect to label the straight line to the kissing gate > before the railway as footpath 37, although this is the path used for a > long time, and it makes no sense to walk the official alignment in an open, > grassed field. There has been nothing official to change its alignment, as > far as I am aware, however. I felt the best solution was to map footpath > 37 as the Countryside Access Map shows, label it as such, and re-label the > straight line as foot=yes, highway=footway alone. Should anything arise to > prevent that, it can be removed instantly without affecting anything else. > 2. Shiplake FP 10 Footpath #23639524 > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23639524> Changeset #52419186 > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/52419186> > The opposite applies to footpath 10: walkers in this case take the > right-angled fence line from the stile (at the junction with Shiplake FP > 11) towards Plough Lane while the Countryside Access Map shows footpath 10 > crossing the field diagonally from a point before the stile. This has the > effect of labelling the short section immediately before the stile wrongly > as footpath 10 when it should be footpath 11. I plan to visit the site and > alter OSM with the same attitude as for footpath 37. > With regards > Bob Hawkins > > > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > Virus-free. > www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > <#m_3726063421128278465_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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