[Talk-GB] Public ROW info sites

[Andy Robinson]

Nick Whitelegg [mailto:Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk] wrote:
>Sent: 05 December 2006 12:45 PM
>To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>Cc: Andy Robinson
>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Public ROW info sites
>
>>Do we know how many other authorities have their ROW info on line like
>>Worcestershire do?
>>http://gis.worcestershire.gov.uk/website/New_Prow/viewer.htm
>
>Hampshire and West Sussex do. That said, the Hampshire site appears to
>have issues with Firefox: if you click on the county map, you end up
>zoomed in about 20 miles southeast of where you should be. On IE it works.
>
>The Hampshire site has a useful interface where you can report path
>problems, though again it seems to have issues with Firefox.
>
>One thing that Freemap does is to allow users to report path problems. If
>you click on a path (=OSM way) in Freemap it allows you to enter some
>comments on that path e.g. boggy, blocked by barbed wire, etc. It would
>obviously be ideal if these could then be communicated to the relevant
>council.
>
>I really need to try and get the Ramblers Association interested...
>

As I've been traipsing my local byways, bridleways and footways I've been
monitoring problem ways, either through lack of access or other problems,
mainly signing. When back I've then submitted reports to both the RA and the
local authority. So my interest in knowing what the actual legal status of a
route is was based on the fact that I did not want to be sending in reports
for routes that while shown on the OS mapping have now for whatever reason
been removed from public access or diverted.
Cheers

Andy


>Nick
>