I have a slightly dissenting view (assuming parish means parish name). At least in Lancashire’s case, I think the use of the numerical ID in place of the parish name should be acceptable. The numerical parish ID is what is used on the council’s own PROW map – as well as the open data they released (and thus the easiest to import into OSM). It would be unrealistic to expect mappers to then cross-check the parish ID with a name, especially since that data is not (as far as I’m aware) easily (openly?) available.
Of course, if third party sites want to then use lookup tables to convert parish ID into parish name, then that would be perfectly acceptable. The general format (parish ID/name, PROW type, number) I support. Regards. From: Tony OSM <tonyo...@gmail.com> Sent: 10 May 2020 12:29 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Lancashire prow_ref format (Was: Public Rights of Way - legal vs reality) I agree with Adam. In the published path orders fixed to lamposts etc the written description includes parish, type, number. Sometimes in that order sometimes type, number, parish. There is no consistency. Parish, type, number is likely to be understood by every user of OSM and I have used it in communication with Lancs CC who appear to understand it. Regards TonyS999 On 10/05/2020 12:03, Adam Snape wrote: Hi, There was a discussion on this list about this not long ago. I agree with Rob's preference for parish, type, number as it is more idiomatic and reflects how the routes are most commonly actually referred to in communication. As Rob noted, the council doesn't use the numeric references with any consistency even within its own electronic systems (with the format on the online map being at variance with the underlying dataset). I can confirm that neither the definitive maps nor statements for Lancashire use any such references. Kind regards, Adam _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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