[Talk-GB] Using data from OS maps

[Philip Barnes]

On 30 November 2018 11:49:08 GMT, Dave F <davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>On 30/11/2018 11:09, Philip Barnes wrote:
>> It is worth remembering that the PROWs shown on OS maps is an overlay
>provided by the highway authority.
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>They're surveyed by local authorities (paid for by us),

They are only surveyed if there is some reason to amend them. Local authorities do not have the resources to survey the vast rights of way network. The vast majority are digitised from the original maps drawn by the parish councils in the 1950s. 

Phil (trigpoint) 

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