[Talk-GB] Permissive paths and "uncrecorded rights of way"

[Jason Cunningham]

On 27 April 2012 15:00, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote:

> * Public rights of way are recorded by the local council on the
> "Definitive map and statement". I am pulling all the details together and
> will contact all England councils asking for access to the definitive
> statements (and requesting its release under the OGL license). This will be
> the topic of a later email and will be summarised on the wiki.
> * Any path not recorded on the councils definitive map and statement by
> 2026 will no longer be a public right of way - Once we have these
> statements I encourage you to write to the council about missing footpaths
> (details to follow). For now you can make use of note=, fixme= and perhaps
> suspected=row as suggested by Nick.
>

I'm not sure if this has come up before, but inner London council's are not
obliged to hold a "definitive map & statement" for public rights of way.
The Ramblers association have  a campaign to encourage inner london
councils to create definitive maps, but I assume the Ramblers association
are not really bothered about the copyright issues.
http://www.ramblers.org.uk/Campaigns+Policy/maplondon.htm
http://www.ramblers.org.uk/Campaigns+Policy/map+london+council+feedback.htm

I guess it would be very useful if people used the wiki to let others know
how their contact with councils went, especially the requests for the
council to apply to OS to release the data using current legislation.

Jason
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