[Talk-GB] Wychavon Way Revised Route

Andy Robinson ajrlists at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 22:51:07 BST 2012


Richard,

This is starting to sound like micro mapping ;-)

Cheers
Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Fairhurst [mailto:richard at systemed.net]
> Sent: 13 June 2012 22:48
> To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Wychavon Way Revised Route
> 
> Steve Brook wrote:
> > Worcestershire County and Wychavon District Council have revised the
> > route of the Wychavon Way long distance footpath
> 
> Oddly enough that echoes a mapping problem I had last week. We went to
> the Llyn Peninsula, north-west Wales, and set out to map part of the Wales
> Coast Path.
> 
> There was previously a Llyn Coastal Path (and a Ceredigion Coast Path, an
> Anglesey Coast Path, and the best-known one in Pembrokeshire). The LCP
> took an inland route at certain points where it would be more enjoyable
and
> varied for the water. The new WCP seems determined to take the closest
> route to the coast - even if that involves walking along an A-road
footpath for
> several miles. There are new WCP signs in some places, but by no means
> everywhere; many of the LCP signs remain, but are badly faded and haven't
> been renewed for several years; and there are brand new, expensive kissing
> gates and stiles that clearly mark an intention to send the WCP along the
> coast... but as yet, no signs to accompany them.
> 
> Basically, it made me hanker for following the NCN through Basingstoke or
> Newport. Anyone who has ever tried to follow the NCN through Basingstoke
> or Newport will realise this is not a commendation.
> 
> I took the view that we should "skate to where the puck's going, not where
it
> is now", and have mapped the WCP as a 95%-probability route following the
> coast through the new gates, even when the signs haven't gone up yet. It
> seems almost certain that the LCP will be subsumed into this; that no-one
will
> choose to walk the LCP rather than the WCP in this area; and I therefore
> haven't preserved these inland braids. But I'm aware a case could be made
> for the opposite!
> 
> cheers
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
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