[Talk-GB] Long Distance Paths

[Nick Whitelegg]

>-Had a quick look at Nick's current rendering which is a good stab as you said. The thing that >sticks out is that there are very few footpaths rendered as public footpaths. It is unsurprising >that this happens because Potlatch et al have defaults when you select public footpath that just >implement footpath. The biggest job for any reliable map would be to get mappers to properly >identify which paths are probably public footpaths (said in such ways because even OS deny being >reliable for that determination). THis is where map rendering becomes an art and where a decision >gets taken as to whether to render footpaths as public footpaths unless...

It's relatively easy at least in my part of the world to identify proper footpaths - in Hampshire the waymarking is quite good. However the general pattern is, the further away from the big cities you go, the worse the waymarking is - some of the England/Wales border counties were pretty dire 10 years ago when I last walked there extensively. However things seem to be improving.

In terms of Freemap, something is treated as a public footpath if *either* it has designation=public_footpath, *or* foot=designated and horse is not designated. 

The style file I use is here:

http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/free-map.org.uk/freemap/data/freemap.xml

LDPs are not yet shown - but assuming I can get Freemap up and running on Chris's server they can be added in, probably in an opencyclemap transparent style.

Nick