[Talk-GB] Which paths are shown on this OS 'Standard' render

[Andy Townsend]

On 29/12/2019 16:43, Richard Fairhurst wrote:

> OS have digitised all paths in National Parks and appear to be 
> gradually digitising
> others. But certainly they haven't done the full set of PROWs yet.


Interestingly, just up the road from my previous example is 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/759440934 .  That's clearly signed as 
a public footpath, it's well within the national park (see 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/759440934#map=15/54.4519/-1.0957 ), 
but it's not shown at 
https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/54.44738,-1.08281,18 .  Maybe 
they've only  done the national parks that London-based journos are 
likely to visit? :)

Looking elsewhere in a couple of areas I'm familiar with, as well as 
missing data, there are plenty of of basic digitisation errors around, 
e.g. gardens seeming to be significantly larger then they should be.  
This is, I guess, only the free version - maybe there's a parallel 
complete version for paying customers?  (a bit like the story repeated 
about the Soviet Union during the Cold War - "they may only be shipping 
Ladas over here, but their military technology is equivalent to ours").  
To check this I did try registering for a free trial to view "National 
Park Pathways", but got the message "We're sorry, we're experiencing 
some technical difficulties at the moment. The OS Maps team are working 
hard to fix the issue".

Best Regards,

Andy