[Talk-GB] Sustrans & OSM

Andy Townsend ajt1047 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 4 18:28:22 UTC 2019


On 04/11/2019 18:19, Edward Bainton wrote:
> (much snippage)
> Sustrans appear to have moved the NCN routes off their own site 
> altogether (perhaps not news to you), and link directly to 
> osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ncn 
> <http://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ncn>. The behaviour is pretty 
> horrible - eg, can't cope with more than one NCN/LCN route on a given 
> stretch of road, which the OpenCycleMap layer does very nicely. OTOH 
> there's a link to a route description and to buy the Sustrans paper 
> map. I've no experience of these.
>
Just to throw in a local anecdote as an aside, as I understand it 
Sustrans near Derby changed their mapping to match what was in OSM 
because (a) what we had was a better representation of the signage on 
the ground and (b) it was a better route for cyclists!

Best Regards,

Andy



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