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I was just thinking it might be a nice idea to have a completely open path problems API that could be used not only for councils but also third party applications. </div>
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However as you say council take up could be problematic. Maybe we could provide a link to FixMyStreet?</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Jon Pennycook <jpennycook@bcs.org.uk><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 04 December 2020 15:51<br>
<b>To:</b> Nick Whitelegg <nick.whitelegg@solent.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-GB] Idea - OSMUK walkers' map application</font>
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<div>For reporting problems, maybe FixMyStreet might be interested - see <a href="https://osm.fixmystreet.com/">
https://osm.fixmystreet.com/</a>
<div dir="auto">They have sold a product to some councils to allow integration between the website and the council's (and their contractor's) back end systems.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I think that trying to encourage councils to use another API might be a challenge unless you offer them money. </div>
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Just floating an idea for a possible OSMUK site, namely an OSMUK 'semi-official' web application for walkers and hikers.</div>
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This could provide similar functionality to sites such as the Ramblers' Pathwatch (<a href="https://www.ramblers.org.uk/advice/pathwatch-report-path-features-and-problems.aspx" id="x_m_4565140425683236130LPlnk903986" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.ramblers.org.uk/advice/pathwatch-report-path-features-and-problems.aspx</a>)
allowing users to report path problems as well as nice views, historical sites and so on. It could also provide info such as train or bus times (by clicking on a rail station), beers served (for a pub), routing via public transport to a given countryside location,
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Reported path problems could be then made available via an API, which could be used by councils - and, given we have the council ROW data available to us via
<a href="http://rowmaps.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">rowmaps.com</a> - the right of way reference could be sourced from this if it's not in OSM already.</div>
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For rendering, we could perhaps use Andy Townsend's SomeoneElse-style, maybe tweaked a little, as it appears to be the most actively maintained of all the England and Wales renderings. This could be setup on our own server, I seem to remember experimenting
with this a couple of years ago when the OSMUK idea was first floated, on a server which had been loaned to the community (I need to re-check my emails, and indeed check if this server is still open for us to use!)</div>
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I've done similar things to this in the past on a small scale, e.g. Freemap (<a href="http://free-map.org.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">free-map.org.uk</a>) once had the facility to add path problems, but now we have the OSMUK organisation in existence,
maybe a semi-official OSMUK walkers' map with added functionality would have greater traction and it's something that could be launched as a project on GitHub?</div>
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