Hi Riseleywalk,

Very good to hear about the usage, and pleased of your initiative. There are lots of keen walkers and hikers in the UK OSM Community, so do feel free to tap into our knowledge if you want any advice.

You may also be interested in a map created by one of us for his own personal use which focuses on things walkers want to see. The same area is here https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=14&lat=52.25079&lon=-0.47637.

One thing I note is that public rights of way are not marked explicitly. You can use the additional designation tag (you probably have to scroll down to the all tags section of the editor and add it there) which allows to mark a section of path, track or road with the appropriate type of PRoW. This allows (say) for a footpath which starts down a driveway, carries on as a farm track and finally turns into a field track to show all these things. Also we find mapping gates, kissing gates, stiles etc greatly enhances the type of info. Here's another section of SomeoneElse's map https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=15&lat=52.9292&lon=-1.61208 which several of us have worked on as described here: https://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/2019/12/2019-new-year-footpath-mapping-lees.html.

Best of luck,

Jerry aka SK53

Reference for anyone (like me) wondering what happened to the cable car http://www.seilbahn-nostalgie.ch/cassons.html

I very much like slightly paved, I immediately have a good feel for it. Its then a matter of judgement whether to go for paved or unpaved.

You will have selected footway in the top panel of the editor. It does the rest setting a load of tag values, but not every value makes sense as a default in the UK. The actual tags that make up this meaning appear lower down. The idea is that a lot of detail is hidden, but that it can be refined.

Street furniture (litter bins, post boxes, benches, grit bins etc) always welcome. I've been slightly surprised by how much I've ended up using such ephemera over the years.

Hi,
Welcome to OpenStreetMap.

Many thanks for adding this path. I've lightly tweaked it by removing some of the access tags which aren't needed. I wondered it the surface=unpaved is what you intended. Most of these little cut-throughs I know in Maidenhead are asphalted (e.g., the one from Grenfell Way under the railway), in which case surface=paved or surface=asphalt would be better.

For some reason this does not appear on the definitive map as a right of way, although it is shown as a adopted highway.

On a personal note I discovered quite a few of these getting on for 11 years ago in my early OSM days.

Regards,

Jerry aka SK53

Thanks Dan, have fixed some. Jerry

Even if it's for a discrepancy try & avoid it, or make a point of replacing sneaking a peek at Gmaps with a visit to the area. If you do do it, its best to be discrete :-)

(and yes I know this is a way out of town & unlikely anyone can get there now)

Please don't look at Google Maps/Imagery when doing this sort of thing. It is against the terms & conditions of both Google & OpenStreetMap. I know it's tempting but there's a risk that all the change may need to be deleted.

SK53

Hi Andreas,
If there are 10-11 houses, I'd probably go with hamlet rather than isolated dwelling. The latter is, in practice, a very rarely used tag in the UK. Where it has been used (by one mapper) they nearly all should be addr:housename. There are possibly a few places in Scotland where isolated_dwelling is appropriate, but there is often a better locality usage (e.g., Ballygrogan).

Jerry

Hi Bernard,
Yes Ruislip Woods (as you describe) is a National Nature Reserve, so can be added as a leisure=nature_reserve. See MAGIC (there is an open data set for NNR): https://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?chosenLayers=nnrIndex,backdropDIndex,backdropIndex,europeIndex,vmlBWIndex,25kBWIndex,50kBWIndex,250kBWIndex,miniscaleBWIndex,baseIndex&box=504338:187878:511071:191141&useDefaultbackgroundMapping=false.

My Aunt used to live very close to the woods.

Jerry

This power line seems to have been removed way/166408008, see note/2071675#map=17/50.54706/2.82357

Can you avoid this type of update, the local convention, in use since 2011 is old_. Thanks.

Please leave this and explain what you are doing & why on talk-gb. Before proceeding further ensure that what you are doing has the consensus of UK mappers.

I think you need to discuss this on talk-gb before making such wholesale changes. I very much doubt that the wiki necessarily reflects UK mappers consensus. Certainly enforcing a rule on priority as you suggest would cause many, many minor roads in Britain to be tertiary. Furthermore there is no guarantee of consistency so a road may have priority in some places and not in others (I think in the main priority markings reflect safety & visibility at most junctions of minor roads)

@JayCBR: there is no rule that populated places must be connected by tertiary roads. In rural parts of Britain it is quite common for small villages and hamlets to only be accessible on very narrow lanes which are most appropriately tagged as unclassified. Do you have local knowledge which indicates the contrary in this case?

Completely forgot to say that routing on the website may take a couple of days before this change works, and with other software typically a month as that is the usual update interval.

Hi & Welcome to OpenStreetMap,

You requested a review of your changes.

Splitting the road did indeed achieve what you wanted, but it is likely someone might have come & glued it back together again (note the couple of warnings above).

Fortunately, although we are unable to use Google StreetView, we can use Bing Streetside (available in the editor) and this shows the bollards in 2012. I've taken the opportunity to do the following:

1) Draw an additional way linking up the two bits of Warrington Street which you split.
2) I made this a footway (it's possible cyclists may use if, but I cant be sure from images).
3) Half way along the new footway, I've added an extra point and labelled it as a bollard passable by pedestrians & cyclists.

In practice just adding the bollard as a point should have stopped cars being routed through the bollards. The additional stuff I've added makes it clearer what the arrangement is and ensures that pedestrians can be routed along the length of Warrington Street.

I've made one or two other changes including updating The Sportsman to an estate agent which I believe is named "A Wilson". Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Regards & Happy New Year,

Jerry

You removed way/224095678 in a task described as adding KFC brand tags. Do you have specific local knowledge that this branch has closed?

It appears both in Food Hygiene data and on KFC's website (way/224095678).

Either way please can you be explicit in the changeset description that you are removing objects when performing these MapRoulette tasks. Such a huge area makes it hard to work out what other changes you make.

It might be worth looking at the recent discussion on talk-gb about farmland (https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2019-December/023889.html), where there are a few of us who have moved to the view that mapping individual fields is probably the best approach for detailed mapping. Also NRW has a very detailed dataset called Phase 1 Habitats (http://lle.gov.wales/catalogue/item/TerrestrialPhase1HabitatSurvey/?lang=en) which codified all land in Wales by categories, which in the main, relate fairly cleanly to OSM tags (see osm.wiki/Plant_Community/UK_Phase_1_Habitat_Classification). I haven't looked at the licence for a while so not absolutely sure it can be used in OSM (it used to be verboten).

Sounds sensible, would be interested if there are any alternatives too. I've deliberately avoided doing some because I doubt if I'll check after Xmas.

Select the way, then a scissors icon appears at the bottom, select the scissors then the node where you want to divide the way. If it's a closed way there'll be a message at the top asking to select the second node. HTH (worth practising before going out; I sometimes stop for a coffee & do the more fiddly stuff in the warm).