On 2 July 2018 at 11:17, Roger Calvert <jrogercalv...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have found a difference in the references given in Map The Paths my area > from that on the local authority maps, and I suspect it is universal. > > The paths are given with a 3 figure reference, but on the maps issued by the > Lake District National Park Authority to volunteer footpath surveyors, they > have a 6 figure reference, the first three referring to the Civil Parish in > which they lie. (The LDNPA maintains footpaths in the National Park under > contract with Cumbria County Council.)
On rowmaps, there's a standardised format whereby the parish name/number goes in one field and the path number goes in another. The display then joins them back together again with a space. Different counties use different formats for combining the numbers, possibly using a slash of dash between them, or possibly including the parish name rather than a parish number. It's also possible that the format used in the GIS data is not the actual legal format used in the Definitive Map and Statement, i.e. the parish numbers might just be an internal convenience. The interpretation of the rowmaps data therefore needs a bit of care. In the case of Cumbria, I've just made an FOI/EIR request for a list of the parish names corresponding to the numbers, and asked whether the numbers are used in the Definitive Statement. See https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/public_rights_of_way_gis_data_5 Robert. -- Robert Whittaker _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
