OpenStreetMap
Hello All OpenStreet Mappers
As a person involved in Equestrian (Horse) Activites , I travel down bridleways quite often , And trying to locate them on a map is useless ..... Unless you use ordanance survey , But trying to get a mobile phone mapping solution using ordanance survey layers (Free Of Charge is Slim) , I have been doing some work in the area i live in and improved some of the roads in this area , Now i noticed when i was doing some work , An option for "Bridleway" , If there are any people out there who use bridleways or live near some , Please start putting them on the map , So Openstreetmap is used by alot more people , and make the Openstreet map community more accurate and try and compete against google and all the rest who are mapping experts ...
Diskussion
Kommentar von JohnSmith am 24. August 2009 um 15:03 Uhr
Things like bridleways aren't on any maps in Australia that I know of, except for perhaps specialist trail maps but they only cover limited areas per map, not the entire world of all horse riding areas and this is where OSM can excel, specialist maps for specialist uses.
This is where google and other map providers will falter, they can't be all things to all people if all they produce is pictures of maps.
Kommentar von David Martin am 24. August 2009 um 15:27 Uhr
There are issues with labelling paths as bridleways in Scotland following the Land Reform Act. They should be labelled as paths, trails or some such, then add horse into the metadata for access as to label it as a bridleway implies only equestrian access permitted (which is usually not the case).
Check the Scottish 'Paths for ALl' website for more details.
Kommentar von marscot am 25. August 2009 um 06:43 Uhr
yeah I am adding the horse=yes/no tag to my edits past and present :)
Kommentar von POHB am 25. August 2009 um 09:35 Uhr
Seconded from an off-road cyclist. Google doesn't bother much with routes you can't get a car down. OSM has the potential to produce really good maps for mountain bikers where the bike-legal trails are clearly distinct from footpaths.
Kommentar von Vclaw am 25. August 2009 um 18:15 Uhr
You can also use the "designation" tag for official rights of way (in England and Wales).
eg designation=public_bridleway or designation=public_footpath etc
See osm.wiki/Proposed_features/Designation
Kommentar von ottokar55 am 27. August 2009 um 14:35 Uhr
There is a riding and hiking map for central europe (germany).
http://topo.geofabrik.de/
It's still in the beginning, don't expect too much.
As from my experience well used bridleways are not usable for hiking and biking (surface is sand in my area, so the ways are easily worn off) I do set the bridleway tag on official horse trails and sometimes even unofficial ones.