MapThePaths 190601

MapThePaths (www.mapthepaths.org.uk) is a project to add all the rights of way (RoWs) and permissive paths in England and Wales to OpenStreetMap fully tagged. This accompanying app helps you find the locations of RoWs from council-supplied data while actually out surveying in-the-field, helping you locate where there are missing paths or paths without a designation tag on OSM.

By logging into OSM and using the live-edit mode (which works with the live OSM API), the app also allows you to change the designation of existing OSM ways by long-pressing them. This should *only* be done via on-the-ground observations, as the licensing of some council data does not permit direct copying of the designation from the council data to OSM.

IMPORTANT! Performance might be slow on older or low-spec devices due to the way in which the council and OSM data is drawn. For the same reason it is NOT recommended to use the app in cities; it is optimised for rural areas with a low density of data.

This is FOSS software, licensed under the GPL v3; see https://gitlab.com/nickw1/mapthepaths-android for source code.