<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 24 Jan 2013, at 14:34, Nick Whitelegg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Default Sans Serif', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">>Not entirely tangential question - Is there any chance that the designation tag will be rendered in the default mapnik anytime soon / ever? Or is there somewhere that already exists that >renders designations? </span><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Yes -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.free-map.org.uk/">www.free-map.org.uk</a>. (at least for southern and northern England and Wales)</font></div></span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>sad to say it doesn't appear to cover the chilterns - I think it might have done a while ago, but not now :'(</div><div><br></div><div><div>On 24 Jan 2013, at 15:01, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Since the public rights of way tagging using designation=* is a very<br>British (actually English and Welsh) thing, I doubt it will ever be<br>rendered on the main OSM map. :-(<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm sure you're probably correct, but are we sure designation doesn't apply outside of the UK? I think it's worth pursuing - anyone know what the process is to request it's added - it would add some much value to the UK map that I really do think it's worth making the case to have it added.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">However, depending on what you're interested in, there's a nice view<br>from ITO that highlights ways tagged with the main PRoW designation<br>tags:<br><a href="http://www.itoworld.com/map/87#fullscreen">http://www.itoworld.com/map/87#fullscreen</a><br></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>That's awesome, although depressingly it shows just how few I have actually managed to tag with a designation :'(</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks all!</div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div></body></html>