[Talk-GB] Lancashire prow_ref reference table

Tue Nov 26 23:41:43 UTC 2019

Adam, thank you

Anderton and Adlington parishes are next to each other on the ground - a 
good example of read across error which needs to be avoided.

Euxton Parish Council have published a recent LCC notice on their 
website - http://www.euxtoncouncil.org.uk/news.php?id=83

which refers to PUBLIC FOOTPATHS EUXTON 37 & 38, CHORLEY BOROUGH .

Separately on Chorley Borough Council website, a modification order 
https://democracy.chorley.gov.uk/ecSDDisplay.aspx?NAME=SD2280&ID=2280&RPID=6590173 
refers

Add to the Definitive Statement for Croston the following:

Restricted Byway 26 from a junction with Back Drinkhouse Lane at SD 4853 
1838running in an approximately easterly direction along an enclosed 
track to pass through bollards at SD 4854 1838 and continuing to 
terminate at SD 4859 1838 at a junctionwith Drinkhouse Road between 
properties 17 and 19 Drinkhouse Road.

It seems clear that LCC have no formal nomenclature reference rules, so 
the method described by you and your reasoning is that which we in 
Lancashire should adopt.

I'd  like to see the data supplied to you made more widely available - 
as that public availability was part of my original question. I shall 
send to Rob the data I extracted from the data supplied.

Regards
Tony

On 26/11/2019 21:12, Adam Snape wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Firstly, Tony, I think 9-4 is Anderton and 9-1 is Adlington.
>
> As part of the original FOI/EIR/Re-use request for the GIS dataset, I 
> also requested (and was supplied) the council's scanned copies of the 
> Definitive Statements along with permission to use them under the OGL. 
> They appear to be complete as of when they were scanned (Early 2000s) 
> but don't include any subsequent modification orders (like many 
> councils Lancs don't frequently update the Map/Statement themselves, 
> the documents have to be read in conjunction with any relevant 
> modification orders)..  If Tony or anyone else is interested in the 
> Statements I can send a download link. If anybody knows anywhere where 
> they could be hosted to be publicly accessible in the long term then 
> that would be great. With the statements the Council also supplied and 
> OGL licensed scans of the county's surviving original parish survey 
> cards which were used as part of the process for drawing up the draft 
> definitive maps/statements. The same applies to these (though beware 
> that these only cover a fraction of the County (the Rural Districts of 
> Lancaster, Fylde, Wigan, West Lancs and Chorley).
>
> The paper Definitive Maps and Statements for Lancashire don't go as 
> far as naming the paths or supplying a definitive reference and as 
> Robert suspected I've not seen any pre-digitisation records which use 
> anything like 9-4-5. Parishes are not numbered on either the map or 
> Statement. Paths are numbered individually and colour coded by status 
> on the maps. The format varied over time but most of the statements 
> are tabulated by (named) parish with column headings 'path number', 
> 'kind of path', 'position', 'length', 'any other particulars', there 
> is no section for path name or reference, though where the statement 
> for one path it refers to another path it is usually in the form of 
> parish, path type, path number.
>
> Whilst there is a pretty much de facto standard when discussing rights 
> of way to use the format parish, path type (often abbreviated), path 
> no., I'm really not sure we need to be overly bothered about the 
> (perceived) formatting preference of each county (I've never heard of 
> a coucnil actually having a preference on path referencing format). In 
> this context differences in formatting don't change the meaning 
> 'Rivington FP3' is synonymous with 'Rivington Footpath 3', is 
> synonymous with 'Public Footpath Number 3 in the Parish of Rivington'. 
> It is much more meaningful to have national consistency than to 
> slavishly following what we imagine to be the formatting preference of 
> each individual authority.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Adam
>
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, 16:04 Robert Whittaker (OSM lists), 
> <robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com 
> <mailto:robert.whittaker%2Bosm at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 at 14:32, Dave F via Talk-GB
>     <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>> wrote:
>     >
>     > On 26/11/2019 12:01, Tony OSM wrote:
>     > >  to the preferred prow_ref format  Adlington FP 5.
>     >
>     > As previous, this is not the preferred format. The format should
>     be as
>     > supplied by the LA, the organisation which has the *authority*
>     to name
>     > PROWs.
>
>     My reading of the original post is that Tony is saying that the
>     Council themselves are inconsistent in how they refer to their PRoWs.
>     In which case, I think we should use the format that is most prevalent
>     on the underlying legal documents (i.e. the Definitive Map and
>     Statement) rather than any electronic working datasets that are
>     produced from these. The onilne map at
>     https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/roads-parking-and-travel/public-rights-of-way/public-rights-of-way-map/
>     uses the "9-5-FP 23" style numbers, but probably doesn't have any
>     legal force. I can't find any actual Definitive Statements online for
>     Lancashire, but there are what seem to be some Definitive Map extracts
>     in their DMMO register at
>     http://www3.lancashire.gov.uk/corporate/dmmoview/ . These mostly look
>     to just use the "FP 34", "BW 45" numbers, without an explicit parish.
>     My guess would be that the parishes are named in the Definitive Map
>     and Statement, rather than using reference numbers (which are probably
>     an artefact of digitisation). So unless the council has officially
>     adopted the electronic version with the "9-5-FP 23" style numbers as
>     it's legal Definitive Map, we should be looking at accepting parish
>     names in the official reference numbers. The question then is how does
>     the council itself refer to the Rights of Way when using named
>     parishes rather than IDs. What is *their* preferred format?
>
>     If we can agree on the appropriate prow_ref format to use in OSM, then
>     I can load the GIS data into my tool at
>     https://osm.mathmos.net/prow/progress/ and have it display the refs in
>     the agreed format. Tony, if you've got a CSV file that converts
>     between the ID numbers and named districts/parishes that you could
>     send me, that would be really helpful, whichever format we end up
>     agreeing to use in OSM. It will also automatically produce a table
>     like https://osm.mathmos.net/prow/progress/essex/parishes with the
>     parish names and numbers for anyone to reference.
>
>     Best wishes,
>
>     Robert.
>
>     -- 
>     Robert Whittaker
>
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