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<p>Hi Nick</p>
<p>I like the two stage approach - surveying then mapping. It would
work well - some of my friends like walking but can't map to save
their life, whereas I can't walk far but love mapping - Win Win
for us all.</p>
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<p>May I suggest that a layer be created for JOSM with all the paths
and their details as provided for MapThePaths. Personally I find
it easier to work with JOSM and I have learnt to create a style to
highlight PROW's, but I don't know how to create a JOSM layer.</p>
<p>Separate layers would allow us to manually transfer from PROW
layer to MAP layer thus avoiding the mechanical import rules, and
would allow us to manually conflate where a path is already mapped
but PROW data is absent.</p>
<p>A layer containing the surveyed GPS data so that all the sources
we need are available would be awesome.</p>
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<p>I may be asking for a workflow that is close to existing, if that
is the case I am able to test and document the workflow for the UK
wiki if that would be helpful.</p>
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<p>Tony Shield <br>
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<p>TonyS999<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/05/2020 18:11, Nick Whitelegg
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"They [the non-expert user] select ROW type and path surface via
a nice interface, and then a tagged GPX trace is generated,
*with trksegs tagged with ROW designation and surface* (which
was done by the first version of the app anyway). This is then
uploaded to the MapThePaths server, and volunteer expert users
*are alerted*. Said expert user then downloads the GPX trace
and, *using the tags in the trksegs of the GPX* then edits in
JOSM, perhaps via a JOSM plugin - or even directly in the
MapThePaths web app. (I am possibly thinking of adding way
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Whitelegg<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 13 May 2020 18:08<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org">talk-gb@openstreetmap.org</a>
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<b>Subject:</b> Rights of way mapping - making it easy for
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<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>Just to continue with the theme of rights of way mapping,
I've been noticing that there are still large tracts of
England and Wales away from the 'honeypot' areas with little
or now ROW mapping at all meaning there's still quite a big
job to be done.</div>
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<div>As you may remember I have been developing a companion app
to MapThePaths. In the first version of this (around two years
ago) I experimented with auto-converting GPX traces to OSM
ways. However I was dissatisfied with the results, the ways
generated were really rather nasty and I ended up having to
prettify them significantly in JOSM afterwards, rendering the
auto-creation facility a little pointless. Consequently later
versions of the app have focused on merely presenting the
council and OSM data overlaid (like the website), with only
limited editing facilities, to change the designation of a
path.</div>
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<div>However (and I may have mentioned this before, it's been a
while) I am wondering about a 'two-user' approach in which a
new user merely does the GPX survey, using an easy to use UI
(a refined version of the MapThePaths app with the UI
re-designed by someone more versed in UX than myself).</div>
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<div>They select ROW type and path surface via a nice interface,
and then a tagged GPX trace is generated (which was done by
the first version of the app anyway). This is then uploaded to
the MapThePaths server, and volunteer expert users. Said
expert user then downloads the GPX trace and then edits in
JOSM, perhaps via a JOSM plugin - or even directly in the
MapThePaths web app. (I am possibly thinking of adding way
creation into the MapThePaths web app anyway, time depending).</div>
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<div>Any thoughts?</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Nick</div>
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