[Talk-GB] Fwd: [Talk-scotland] Shetland-Orkney ferry and NCN 1

[Shaun McDonald]

Here’s some info from someone who used to live on Shetland and has visited recently, and is an OSM mapper who isn’t on the list.

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> From: John Robert Peterson <jrp.crs at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Talk-scotland] Shetland-Orkney ferry and NCN 1
> Date: 26 March 2014 18:00:17 GMT
> To: Shaun McDonald <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk>
> 
> I'm pretty sure there are issues with ferries around orkney too, last time I checked, there are 2 ferries that link Orkney to the mainland, and one goes to aberdeen.
> 
> I sugest someone with proper cycling experience does a proper audit of edits done by the user in question in the area on the offchance that there is a pattern.
> 
> JR
> 
> 
> On 26 March 2014 17:55, John Robert Peterson <jrp.crs at gmail.com> wrote:
> unless there have been some very significant, and budgetarilly unlikely, changes, there is a ferry from sumburgh to fairisle, but it goes no further.
> 
> There is however a proper big ferry that goes from Lerwick to Aberdeen with a stop off every second night in Orkney. 
> 
> I've been in Orkney many times, but only ever in the middle of the night while trying to sleep, a bunch of blokes trying down cargo with remarkably noisy equipment. so I can't comment on the Orkney side. 
> 
> 
> On 26 March 2014 17:20, Shaun McDonald <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote:
> Dunno if you know the answer to this?
> 
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> 
> > From: Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemeD.net>
> > Subject: [Talk-scotland] Shetland-Orkney ferry and NCN 1
> > Date: 26 March 2014 17:19:25 GMT
> > To: talk-scotland at openstreetmap.org
> >
> > Hello Scotland,
> >
> > Someone has pointed out that OSM currently has NCN 1 going by ferry to Grutness/Sumburgh:
> >
> > http://cycle.travel/map?lat=59.8714&lon=-1.2772&zoom=13
> > http://opencyclemap.org/?zoom=11&lat=59.8689&lon=-1.27559&layers=B000
> >
> > whereas the ferries actually go to Lerwick.
> >
> > P2 tells me that the way in question was created by a German mapper last summer. I can't see any information anywhere about a Kirkwall-Grutness ferry, but then I've never been north of John O'Groats!
> >
> > Could someone with local knowledge correct/amend as applicable? Better to have this section of NCN 1 missing than send people on a non-existent ferry, I think.
> >
> > cheers
> > Richard
> >
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