[Talk-GB] Footpaths - search for the missing ones

[Rob Nickerson]

Hi all,

I received an email yesterday from Chris at National Library of Scotland /
GB1900 project. All public domain links so reposting it here:

1.    I was curious myself to see how the distribution of footpaths looked
a century ago based on the GB1900 abbreviations so I mapped the data I sent
you at http://geo.nls.uk/maps/gb1900footpath/

2.    On 9 July in London there will be an official launch event of the
cleaned and edited GB1900 dataset:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gb1900-historical-gazetteer-a-celebration-and-launch-tickets-46224059406
You or your colleagues would be welcome to attend, but no worries if you
can’t, and I’ll keep you posted with the revised/cleaned dataset next
month. It would be good to keep possible OSM projects involving this
dataset in mind for the future.



If anyone is in London and would like to attend this (or can travel in to
attend this) please let me know.
Best regards,
*Rob*


On Wed, 9 May 2018 at 21:13, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> Just posted a "challenge" to Loomio for anyone who is interested. It's a
> bit beyond me so thought I'd post it here.
>
> Basically we have point data of historic footpaths (some 300k points) and
> I think it would be amazing to compare this to OSM to see if we can find
> more footpaths to map. Obviously some will be long gone due to 100 years of
> urban sprawl, but I'm hopeful we can still find some missing paths.
>
> https://www.loomio.org/d/pviAOkGR/challenge-footpaths
>
> Thanks,
> *Rob*
>
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