[Talk-GB] Talk-GB Digest, Vol 164, Issue 16

[Mike Baggaley]

In my view we need to be putting out a consistent UK wide message (preferably parish name, type and number) and not confusing potential mappers by having different formats in different counties. We have enough trouble already with path references variously being put in name, ref or local_ref instead of prow_ref, so need a simple unambiguous standard.

Regards,
Mike

>Just wanted to add that in my view the other reason to list by parish name,
>type and number is that these directly relate to the legal record. Parish
>Footpath 11 has usually been Parish Footpath 11 since the 1950s and will
>continue to be so unless a formal legal process is followed to change
>something. The numeric references for districts and parishes exist only in
>an internal database of relatively recent creation. If 5 years down the
>line the council adopts a new system any numeric references in OSM would
>then be meaningless.