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On 20/01/2011 11:10, Jerry Clough - OSM wrote:
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Certainly the Grantham Canal is a good place to clarify how to
tag canals in various states of disuse: ...<br>
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Mea culpa for parts of both of those. I think that I used
"canoeable" (i.e. having some water in it) as indicating whether it
was a "canal"or a "derelict_canal". Neither appear to be regularly
used/usable for canal boats now; in the case of the Grantham canal
as has already been mentioned it's piped under some roads and has
trees growing in it in places; in the case of that stretch of the
Cromford canal much of what the nature reserve now preserves would
be obliterated if you took a boat down it.<br>
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Suggestions for improved disused canal tagging are welcome -
something that distinguishes between "not usable by traditional
canal boats", "has no water in it" and "path still clearly visible
as an indentation in the landscape". In the case of the Grantham
canal outside of Nottingham there's probably enough descriptive
information there to retag it without a visit if someone's keen.<br>
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On 20/01/2011 11:20, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The modern-day Friends of the Cromford Canal occasionally run boat trips
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I suspect that you could probably get a larger boat along the top
bit (just south of Ambergate) without too many issues, but I think
the bottom bit had signs suggesting not to disturb anything.<br>
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I do see occasional leaflets in pubs from the Friends of the
Cromford Canal, suggesting rejoining some of the sections, but the
size of the task ahead of them is substantial.<br>
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In OSM there are disused sections of that still mapped from NPE I
believe, so there's more to be done there too.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Andy<br>
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