On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 21:31, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There are a few walking routes that incorporatesections of beach walking. > > These sections have no 'infrastructure' - they are not formed or > unformed paths, they are just walking along the beach. >
I've mapped something like that. A route along a beach from a service road to a jetty. A track rather than a footpath because vehicular access is permitted (and necessary for some usages). But it's not formed or marked, it just is. I've also mapped a couple of footpaths across grass. They are official rights of way. The start of one has a fingerpost with a walking man on it (official marker for a public footpath here) and a couple of waymarker. But without reference to a map you'd spend a lot of time hunting around from the fingerpost to find the waymarker because there's no visible track, and after the waymarker you'd have no chance of figuring out where to go next. The only way I could get the routes was to enlist the aid of a local walker who knew the paths from memory, had walked them many times and was adept at interpreting aerial imagery. I later found an old Ordnance Survey map in the editor layer index which confirmed the paths. My conclusion? If people walk along it and it's a right of way, it's a footpath even if it's not visible on the ground. Even more importantly, if it's a public right of way it needs to be rendered as such, not just made available to routeing algorithms. YMMV. -- Paul
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