[Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey Public Sector Mapping Agreement

[Mike Harris]

Kevin

Your observation is correct. Especially in open access land where the 
definitive line has been lazily drawn with a ruler, but in general too, 
I would record where the path is on the ground (if it can be seen!) and 
- if I have copyright-free information -  I would add the numbering and 
legal status to the line on the ground together with a note to the 
effect that it does not follow the definitive line.

In farmed areas the situation is slightly different as the path on the 
ground is sometimes a potential trespass - in such cases it is important 
to record that the path is not the legal line of the right of way (if we 
know so) and if the legal line is walkable and visible on the ground I 
might well also map that with appropriate annotations. I would myself 
bear in mind that in farmland the line of a path on the ground may well 
never be visible if it is a path that crosses fields (especially 
pasture) and not heavily enough used to be visibly worn (perhaps because 
it wasn't on OSM??).

Mike

On 19:59, Kevin Peat wrote:
>
> On 24 March 2011 16:08, Luke Smith <luke.smith at grough.co.uk 
> <mailto:luke.smith at grough.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Good points there - that description is pretty useless without a
>     map to go with it.
>
>     Previously, I would have argued that in some cases the fact there
>     was a right of way was important. It's common to see a PRoW on a
>     map that follows a perfectly straight line across moorland.
>
>
> Dartmoor has some of these rights of way without any actual path on 
> the ground. I wouldn't want to see these in OSM unless they could 
> somehow be marked as non-navigable and rendered suitably. I've always 
> taken the view that, especially in the open access areas, what's on 
> the ground should be mapped.
>
> Kevin

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