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Hi,</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="LPlnk903986">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 rowmaps.com - 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 (free-map.org.uk) 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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Thanks,</div>
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