<div dir="ltr">W<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 September 2017 at 14:35, Bob Hawkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobhawkins@waitrose.com" target="_blank">bobhawkins@waitrose.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I should be interested to learn the general consensus regarding definitive
alignments of Public Rights of Way and paths actually walked, and whether
contributors have similar predicaments to mine. I have two cases in
Shiplake, Oxfordshire:</div>
<div>1. Shiplake FP 37 <span><font color="#222222"><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:9pt">Footpath<span class="m_3726063421128278465Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></font></font></span><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/528052488" target="_blank"><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:9pt" color="#2244dd"><font style="TEXT-DECORATION:none">#528052488</font></font></font></a> <span><font face="Arial" color="#222222"><font style="FONT-SIZE:9pt">Changeset
#</font></font></span><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/52405541" target="_blank"><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:9pt" color="#2244dd"><font style="TEXT-DECORATION:none">52405541</font></font></font></a></div>
<div><font color="#222222">I had labelled the straight line path to the kissing
gate before the railway as <span><font style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><font style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" color="#000000">Shiplake FP
37</font></font></span></font>, originally. Since devoting my time to
adding PRoW information in the Oxfordshire Chilterns and using Oxfordshire
County Council’s Countryside Access Map, I have become aware of official path
alignments. I pondered long and hard over this issue. I decided,
finally, that it would be incorrect to label the straight line to the kissing
gate before the railway as footpath 37, although this is the path used for a
long time, and it makes no sense to walk the official alignment in an open,
grassed field. There has been nothing official to change its alignment, as
far as I am aware, however. I felt the best solution was to map footpath
37 as the Countryside Access Map shows, label it as such, and re-label the
straight line as foot=yes, highway=footway alone. Should anything arise to
prevent that, it can be removed instantly without affecting anything else.</div>
<div>2. Shiplake FP 10<font color="#222222"><font face="Arial"> </font><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:9pt">Footpath<span class="m_3726063421128278465Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></font></span></font><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23639524" target="_blank"><font style="FONT-SIZE:9pt" color="#2244dd"><font style="TEXT-DECORATION:none" face="Arial">#23639524</font></font></a><font face="Arial"><font color="#222222"> <span><font style="FONT-SIZE:9pt">Changeset #</font></span></font></font><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/52419186" target="_blank"><font style="FONT-SIZE:9pt" color="#2244dd"><font style="TEXT-DECORATION:none" face="Arial">52419186</font></font></a></div>
<div>The opposite applies to footpath 10: walkers in this case take the
right-angled fence line from the stile (at the junction with Shiplake FP 11)
towards Plough Lane while the Countryside Access Map shows footpath 10 crossing
the field diagonally from a point before the stile. This has the effect of
labelling the short section immediately before the stile wrongly as footpath 10
when it should be footpath 11. I plan to visit the site and alter OSM with
the same attitude as for footpath 37.</div>
<div>With regards</div>
<div>Bob Hawkins</div></div></div><div id="m_3726063421128278465DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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