<div dir="ltr">I've been looking at Durham records online (not available to download) they are recorded like below:<div><br></div><div style>Status: BW</div><div style>Parish: Crook</div><div style>Path Number: 37</div>
<div style>Path Ref Number: 0280000037</div><div style><br></div><div style>The long reference number identifies the Parish (first part) and the path number (last part) or I believe that's how it is made up from checking different areas.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>If sticking with one PROW code then I guess either prow_ref or prow:ref. I used prow_ref.</div><div style>If multiple codes are to be used then to my mind it would make sense to use.</div><div style>
<br></div><div style>prow:ref</div><div style>prow:parish</div><div style>prow:authority</div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Barry Cornelius <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barrycorneliusuk@gmail.com" target="_blank">barrycorneliusuk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:47:34 Steven Horner <<a href="mailto:steven@stevenhorner.com" target="_blank">steven@stevenhorner.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I have followed the guidelines<br>
at <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Tagging_Guidelines" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.<u></u>org/wiki/United_Kingdom_<u></u>Tagging_Guidelines</a> but<br>
should I tag the footpath with the local authority reference which would aid<br>
logging the path to the Council if problems like FixMyPaths, if so how?<br>
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Although I cannot add anything useful to the discussion about prow:ref and prow_ref, I do have some thoughts about the content of the tag.<br>
<br>
Often the data a council provides about a PROW includes duplication. For example, often the parish is given as a nice friendly name and also as a number. Here's an example of the data given about a PROW that is provided by Devon County Council (both council and PROW chosen at random):<br>
<SimpleData name="PARISH">Abbots Bickington</SimpleData><br>
<SimpleData name="STATUS">Footpath</<u></u>SimpleData><br>
<SimpleData name="NUMBER">1</SimpleData><br>
<SimpleData name="NUMBER0">0</SimpleData><br>
<SimpleData name="CODE">801FP1</<u></u>SimpleData><br>
<SimpleData name="NUMBER1">Abbots Bickington Footpath 1</SimpleData><br>
<br>
So the id of the parish appears three times (twice as a name and once<br>
as a number); the number of the path appears three times; and the fact that it is a footpath appears three times.<br>
<br>
For this, I guess you've got a choice betwen using the contents of CODE or NUMBER1. I would recommend choosing whatever appears on the Council's interactive map. Devon County Council uses the contents of the NUMBER1 field, i.e.:<br>
Abbots Bickington Footpath 1<div class="im"><br>
<br>
On Tue, 1 Jan 2013 16:36:53 Craig Loftus <<a href="mailto:craigloftus%2Bosm@googlemail.com" target="_blank">craigloftus+osm@googlemail.<u></u>com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Is it wise to preclude adding more tags to the namespace? As an example, one<br>
additional tag that occurs to me is "prow:operator" (or "prow:authority"), to<br>
describe the local authority the references 'belong' to.<br>
</blockquote>
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On Tue, 1 Jan 2013 22:35:31 Robert Whittaker <<a href="mailto:robert.whittaker%2Bosm@gmail.com" target="_blank">robert.whittaker+osm@gmail.<u></u>com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I wouldn't have thought that listing the authority would be that<br>
useful -- you should be able to work that out from the county that the<br>
way resides in.<br>
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My view is that it would be useful to include the id of the council as I do not think it's obvious which authority is involved. For example, the data for Devon does not include Torbay. And Bedfordshire is provided by two councils: Bedford and Central Bedfordshire. Gloucestershire is provided by the councils of Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire.<br>
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For my web site (<a href="http://www.rowmaps.com" target="_blank">www.rowmaps.com</a>), I've chosen to use the two letter codes that are used by the OS Opendata 1:50 000 Scale Gazetteer:<br>
<a href="http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/50k-gazetteer/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.<u></u>uk/oswebsite/products/50k-<u></u>gazetteer/index.html</a><br>
<br>
The two letter code is in field 12 of their colon-separated file. There are 208 different values. Fields 13 and 14 of that file also provide short names and long names.<br>
<br>
Here are some examples of fields 12, 13 and 14:<br>
BF:Beds:Bedford<br>
BK:C Beds:Central Bedfordshire<br>
DN:Devon:Devon<br>
DU:Durham:Durham<br>
GR:Glos:Gloucestershire<br>
SG:S Glos:South Gloucestershire<br>
TB:Torbay:Torbay<br>
<br>
Either you bundle the id of the council in with the name of the PROW as in:<br>
Devon Abbots Bickington Footpath 1<br>
<br>
Or as suggested by Craig you could provide it in a separate tag - he was suggesting "prow:operator" or "prow:authority".<br>
<br>
All of the data for councils that I've seen specify the parish in which the PROW appears. So, really there are three separate pieces of information:<br>
id of council<br>
id of parish<br>
id of PROW<br>
e.g.,:<br>
Devon<br>
Abbots Bickington<br>
Footpath 1<br>
or:<br>
DN<br>
801<br>
FP1<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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