[Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way in Oxfordshire and Hampshire

Philip Withnall philip at tecnocode.co.uk
Fri Sep 8 13:38:33 UTC 2017


On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 17:11 +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
> On 23 August 2017 at 15:25, Philip Withnall <philip at tecnocode.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 11:30 +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
> > wrote:
> > > Some of you have have already come across my Public Rights of Way
> > > comparison tool at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/prow/progress/
> > > which
> > > aims to help mappers trying to complete the mapping of Rights of
> > > Way
> > > in their area.
> > I’d be interested in the data for Cumbria and Lancashire being on
> > there, though I’m unlikely to be able to devote any time to getting
> > hold of the data or using the output from the tool for a month or
> > two.
> > I guess you can consider this a statement of interest. :-)
> 
> Lancashire have already released their data privately to rowmaps, so
> would hopefully be amenable to providing it for use in OSM if someone
> asked. Cumbria do have the GIS data, but might it might be more of a
> problem getting them to release it judging by
> https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/prow_data_14 . Since it might
> take some time, I've put in an FOI/EIR request at
> https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/public_rights_of_way_gis_data_
> an_2
> and we'll see what happens.

Thanks a lot, I’ll follow that WDTK request.

> BTW: To help keep track of where we are with data availability and
> licensing from different councils, I've set up
> http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/prow/progress/open-data . If you know
> of
> any significant stuff that needs adding / updating there, please let
> me know.

Great stuff! :-)

Philip
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