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Tue 10 Oct 2017 10:40PM

ProW map

R RobJN Public Seen by 40

Finally had time to play with my pet project of visualising public rights of way data.

The attached screenshot took me 1 hour to complete coming from a starting point of no knowledge of Mapbox and minimal knowledge of WGIS.

Basically I took the Warwickshire rights of way data, converted it to the standard web projection and loaded it in to MapBox studio. Added line colours. The line ends were a bit harder and required the QGIS plugin "Locate points along lines" to extract end points as a new dataset for loading into Mapbox studio.

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RobJN Tue 10 Oct 2017 10:50PM

Mapbox allows for 50,000 map views (4 tiles equates to 1 view) for free. I have no idea how long this would last if we only made the layer available for OSM mapping.

Question: What do you think? Perhaps we can load in all the data @robertwhittaker, Barry Cornelius (rowmaps.com) and others have managed to collect.


p.s. Restricting layer use is not easily possible. Perhaps we could add a watermark or just not publicise it too widely...

p.p.s. The layer has a transparent background and I show it here on top of the B&W OSM layer.

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Nick Whitelegg Mon 16 Oct 2017 4:47PM

What do we think about adding something like this to the UK map as a selectable layer? It would allow mappers to find unmapped PROWS and could be used for stats (which areas need the most ROWs mapped, etc?)

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RobJN Tue 17 Oct 2017 8:52PM

Hi Nick. Yes, I was envisaging this to be a layer (it fact it is a layer of the combined LA data and has zero OSM data in it). In my screenshot I have it on top of the B&W version of OSM-Carto in JOSM. Time permitting I will have a go at adding a few more LAs this weekend. Any that you want me to add as a priority?

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Nick Whitelegg Fri 20 Oct 2017 11:48AM

Hello Rob, ok that's great.. Hampshire is one (now have a tileserver basically ready to go - see other post).

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RobJN Wed 25 Oct 2017 9:13PM

Hi Nick. I didn't get as far as loading any more data in this weekend. Instead I focused on writing a script to process the data. With 150+ authorities (assuming we get them all) there is a lot to do. I will see what I can get done over the next few weeks. Good to hear that you find it useful though.