Hi,
On 12/15/25 18:05, Mark Goodge wrote:
Here's a real life example of that, which I'm familiar with as it's
close to where I live:
The problem that I, as an occasional armchair mapper of small towns in
England, have with this approach is that I have no idea how "set in
stone" these ancient way-of-rights are. I frequently encounter them
crassly mismatching aerial imagery. Here is a not-so-outrageous example
but I hope it still illustrates the problem I am facing:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=20/51.0444084/-3.3114631
In the centre of the map, there's a "public footpath" that runs right
through a couple of trees and a concrete wall (even after correcting the
imagery offset to match other features).
It *seems* obvious that the footpath should actually be a couple metres
to the East in this location. But I can't just move a right of way, can
I? For all I know, the right of way might indeed enshrine access to that
building's private garden, and what looks like the actual footway on the
picture could just be an attempt by the landowner to trick people out of
their rights!
If this were any other country (or if this footpath were not tagged with
an official sounding "prow_ref"), I'd certainly move those couple of
nodes to match imagery. But I don't dare to here because, as I said,
what has apparently been mapped here is immaterial and therefore does
not need to match imagery.
Perhaps I should simply create a second object, a non-PROW actual
footway, offset by three metres?
I admit that this example is a little silly because it's just such a
small offset but I have encountered more serious cases where a PROW
footway went through the shrubs on the east of a building, while a nice
asphalted footway was visible on the western side and I was just about
to make the map match the imagery when I saw that it was some sort of
PROW and I thought, well maybe I would be lying if I claimed the PROW
was on the western side.
How do you settle such cases when you encounter them?
Bye
Frederik
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