After being sadly distracted from mapping for some time I was able to get some decent surveying done whilst on a walking holiday in the Lake District.
I was surprised to see how dense the Lake District coverage already was but pleased to see that my traces still covered unsurveyed paths. So far I've only processed part of the data from one of our longer days - a walk in the hills around Grasmere.
I've now uploaded a load of new paths, locations of some cairns, benches, postboxes, assorted other landmarks and POIs. Where I judged that my surveyed paths ought to connect with (or were the same as) existing paths I tried to only modify the existing ways where I thought I could improve on the accuracy / detail of them.
The only section that I've not uploaded is a walk down some sheep tracks (as well as some trackless hillside) from the end of the day when we were a little lost and needed to cut across the hillside to get back to proper tracks and thence to the car. I'm a little unclear over whether this was technically trespassing (without looking at an OS map - which I obviously can't do - I don't know if the land was open access) and over whether this is something I should usefully include on OSM or not. Any thoughts on whether it would be appropriate would be appreciated; regardless I have still made some useful additions for the day.
Should be able to add lots more useful data from our outings, although this was probably the biggest (and hopefully the most josm-time consuming!) batch.
Discussion
Comment from wongataa on 15 June 2009 at 14:47
The entire Lake District is open access. You have the right to roam all over it. You cannot be tresspassing by walking over a hillside with no path.
Comment from daveemtb on 17 June 2009 at 12:59
Glad to see someone adding more detail to Grasmere. Wasn't all that long ago I was up there myself doing bits and bobs in and around the place.
I think you made the right call not to map the parts where you cut across fields. It's not a path so there's no point marking it as one. I've been in a similar situation lots of times myself. The sheep tracks are a slightly harder call. If they are just sheep tracks and just peter out, I'd not map them. If they are narrow paths but go somewhere useful, perhaps map them as highway=path?
Comment from daveemtb on 17 June 2009 at 13:01
for more info on right to roam, see http://www.lake-district.gov.uk/index/visiting/outdoors/walking_climbing/openaccess_and_crow.htm it seems it covers 55% of the national park but not all of it.