[OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

[Mike Harris]

The UK-only page seems to have no text. Why don't we join the two pages into
one and use Andy's new one, which does have some text on it and is more
international?


Mike Harris

-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory Williams [mailto:gregory.williams at purplegeodesoftware.co.uk] 
Sent: 19 January 2009 10:44
To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists); talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk- 
> bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Andy Robinson (blackadder-
> lists)
> Sent: 19 January 2009 10:26
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [OSM-talk] Walking Routes - wiki needs some work?
> 
> I started a stub http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Walking_Routes
> based
> upon the Cycle Routes page. I hope this doesn't duplicate anything but 
> I could not find a landing page on the wiki to cover long distance 
> walking and hiking routes generally.
> 
> Needs work to pull stuff together and the UK long distance footpath 
> link is to Wikipedia and I guess we should produce a table(s) of our 
> own to show progress on mapping each route.
> 
> I suspect 2009 will see the emergence of proper OSM walking/hiking
maps
> so
> its time we got our act together.
> 
> Please pull the page apart and add new stuff. Ideally try to keep 
> content and ideas in the same sort of format as the Cycle Route ones 
> so that
we
> have
> some synergy and we don't have to reinvent the wheel yet again ;-)

There's the following existing page for the UK:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_Long_Dista
nce_Paths

Gregory