[Talk-GB] PRoW Ref codes (WAS:Hampshire Rights of Way Data released under OS OpenData licence)

Nick Whitelegg Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk
Thu May 31 19:01:04 BST 2012


I guess the thing to do is just use the most common reference.

I am aware of several schemes:

Hampshire uses parish plus number e.g. "Tichborne Footpath 5", West Sussex uses a county-wide, 3 or 4 digit number (e.g. 1263, 2005) and I've also seen XXX/YY (in Wrexham borough, Wales) and very large, 6-digit numbers (Cumbria). We should probably just make it free form rather than enforce a particular format.

Nick

-----Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote: -----
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From: Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com>
Date: 31/05/2012 06:04PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] PRoW Ref codes (WAS:Hampshire Rights of Way Data released under OS OpenData licence)


Fantastic news about Hamps PRoW data :-) Anyone else contacting their local council can use this as an example case.

Q: Do we need to have a suggested way of tagging the reference numbers in ref=* ? So far I have seen the following in use:
 
* Parish / path no. / link no.    ==> For example: 417/26/1  (where the parish is a number code)
* Area RoW_type Path_no.    ==> For example: North Tawton Bridleway 18

Delimiters seen include ' ' , '/' and '-'.
 
A: Can I throw out the suggestion that we use:

* Parish-RoWType-PathNo<-LinkNo.> (where the bit in <> brackets is optional). I assume that use of '-' is allowed.

Regards,
RobJN
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