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<p>On 10/31/17 19:04, Bob Hawkins wrote:<br>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR:
#000000">1. The portrayal of barriers: we know kissing gates
are not rendered in OSM but are rendered in Andy Townsend’s
map. In neither case, though, do barriers stand out strongly
enough, in my opinion. I created coloured images of a gate,
kissing gate and stile for use with my Garmin eTrex Legend
many years ago for this reason. I continue to use them now in
Locus Map on my smartphone. I wish more attention would be
applied; to place an appropriate image within a square, even,
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My use of "the smallest icons I could get away with" for barriers
was a deliberate style decision; by all means try differently
coloured or larger ones. There's a "soup to nuts" set of
instructions at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:SomeoneElse/Ubuntu_1604_tileserver_load">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:SomeoneElse/Ubuntu_1604_tileserver_load</a>
and once you've done that you can play around with icons and see how
they work with everything else.<br>
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<div>2. Permissive paths: I do not understand “<em>permissive
paths need showing; Andy's cartography does not yet do
this but again this is something I have experience with.”
</em>Woodhouse Farm in Ipsden, South Oxfordshire has
provided a permissive footpath and permissive bridleways.
Both are shown on Andy’s map (<a
title="https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=15&lat=53.11419&lon=-1.31171"
href="https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=15&lat=53.11419&lon=-1.31171"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=15&lat=53.11419&lon=-1.31171</a>):
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That's a different area - unfortunately you need to click
"permalink" at the top right to get the URL to update (arguably
that's a bug - if anyone knows of an "automatic permalink" plugin
for leaflet I'll fix it).<br>
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the footpath is overlaid with a pink dashed line and the
bridleway is shown as others, simply. I wonder what is the
intention so far as permissive paths are concerned?
Woodhouse Farm has done walkers and horse riders a
tremendous service by making these paths available. The
alternative PRoW route would have to be through woodland,
obscuring otherwise beautiful views, which we can enjoy so
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I think the "permissive paths" comment meant that I don't have a
specific rendering for any "permissive" designation (which is
correct - they'll just appear as grey). There's certainly an
argument to be had about displaying these but I'm not sure what
signifier you'd want to use (OS and Nick's fork use dash length for
"type of path"; my original uses colour, and there aren't that many
colours left).<br>
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<div>3. Writing of beautiful views, my final item concerns
scenic paths: I have commented elsewhere that I wish paths
with scenic views could be treated like the road atlases I
remember where a green ribbon was placed alongside such
roads. I have been unaware that “description” tags have
been used in OSM in the same way. I wonder, though, what
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Can you give some examples of how such things are tagged? It might
be possible to work something out, but parsing something based on
the description would be difficult.<br>
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Best Regards,<br>
Andy<br>
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