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<p>Hi <br>
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<p>I like the idea. <br>
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<p>Can it be extended to be a UK based map which is has greater
prominence to aspects such as the recent discussion about cyclists
and paths?</p>
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<p>Does anyone have an idea of how it could be made to happen -
could we (OSM UK) fund and maintain it with commitment for say 2
years? Using volunteers or donated equipment or personal funding
commitments? Do we know the size of server required to support a
given load? Can we manage the required operations and security?</p>
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<p>Tony Shield - TonyS999<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/12/2020 15:40, Nick Whitelegg via
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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
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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, and so on.</div>
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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
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Thanks,</div>
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