[Talk-GB] Canoeing infrastructure/river features

[Jez Nicholson]

By 'collect some relevant info' I mean 'document your findings from asking
questions on Talk lists and poking round the wiki'. Before constructing any
grand new project pages, I would add a section to a relevant UK page. This
_could_ spin off into a new page later, or it might provoke the response
of, "but this is documented here on .... page", or people might join in.
Either way, everyone wins.

A search on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?search=canoe and
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?search=kayak throws up some
pages. The https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:route%3Dcanoe caught my
eye as I didn't know that canoe routes were signed/plotted.

My best experience with the wiki comes from writing
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_United_Kingdom
By writing up the situation in the UK and working-in-the-open on a personal
project to locate wind farms, I have found other people who were also
interested, and it has led (partially) to the solar quarterly project.

The OSMWiki is organised in places, chaotic in other places, and
frustrating in many.....but it is *ours*. I appeal to all UK Mappers to
make it a good place to be.

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 9:48 AM Jez Nicholson <jez.nicholson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Interesting. There must be some waterways fans around here somewhere. I
> can see some pages like
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Whitewater_Maps which
> focus on one aspect of canoeing, and some countries appear to have marked
> routes.
>
> As a UK Mapper you could add to
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_waterways and collect
> some info relevant to UK canoeists.
>
> - Jez
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 5:00 AM Edward Bainton <bainton.ete at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all
>>
>> I've started to map some features useful (I hope) to canoeists such as
>> myself.
>> Eg, https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/73814496 (Irthlingborough
>> Lock)
>> Eg, https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/73815104 (bottom right)
>>
>> However, there seems to be quite a lack of objects on the wiki that are
>> suitable. (Full disclosure: I'm an occasional, rather inexpert mapper.)
>>
>> Is this the place to discuss?
>>
>> Edward
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