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Wow, all this escalated rather quickly...
You obviously don't have travellers near you. Our local parks are now much harder to get into let alone if you are disabled as they all have a small rampart across any flat entrance to stop cars and caravans being driven onto the park.
Looks nice but it's probably not really usable for navigation. I checked the Netherlands and Germany. You'd need more details for safely navigating on the water. But it definitely has potential. There are also some other specialized open street map based maps for - rails: https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ - cycling: https://www.opencyclemap.org/ - sea map (competes with this I guess, and is a bit more detailed for navi…
It is mostly QA tool for OSM contributors.
Who mapped these? In New Mexico we have a ton of dry arroyos that maybe have a couple inches of flowing water a few times a year. Zooming in at places I'm familiar with, a surprising number of them are mapped. I know of rez roads[1] nearby that aren't on OSM or any map I know of, but the ditch we used for cross country practice is. Wild! [1] Two-track dirt roads on the Navajo Reservation that are not regularly mainta…
As you can see they are tagged as 'intermittent'. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/380234870
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Another narrowboater here - though leisure not liveaboard. We moor our 40-footer in Worcester, just off the Severn. I worked with the canals for many years, including a spell at British Waterways and then editing Waterways World magazine, and I still draw the maps for WW. I have a 75%-finished canal mapping app I really need to get round to releasing…
Some of us here would love to see it, or even just hear the concept.
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Fellow boater here - I live on a Dutch Barge. Also awake at 0530 with creaking lines in this storm. Lovely lifestyle. We registered our new baby’s address as the boat on a birth certificate last week and had no problems. Good luck to any future researcher geocoding that! I expected a postcode to be required but it wasn’t :)
Ah I love a Dutch barge, does yours have functioning leeboards? Very surprised you didn't need a postcode for the address on the birth certificate - although I suppose if it's 'place of birth', it could be anywhere really and that place might not have a postcode.
The "Navigable by canoe" filter seems to filter out everything, which is a bummer, because I've always wondered how far up into the Sierras I could drop a canoe and still be able to paddle back to the bay area.
There are a ton of rivers and sections thereof that are easily navigable flatwater in MA which don't show up.
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There are several narrowboaters who record their travels on YT, perhaps the best, certainly one of the first, is "Travels by Narrowboat", with 6 seasons on Prime[1] and the more recent years on YT[2]. [1] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=travels+by+narrowboat [2] https://www.youtube.com/@CountryHouseGent
Kevins videos have always been great, and from the same generation of “BoatTubers” as myself and my wife and dog (we’re Minimal List), but there were earlier (including the slightly more venerable CruisingTheCut) and a whole slew of great channels that came later, all speaking to different tastes and styles and audiences. My personal favorite as an introduction to narrowboat life has been Robbie Cummings for a while…
I've been waiting for the day that HN would have something tangentially related to the English and Welsh canal system so I could gush about it. For those that don't know, we have around 2500 miles of (mostly) navigable canals around the UK. They were built during the industrial revolution prior to the invention of trains such that we could transport coal and other goods relatively quickly and without damage (consider…
Another narrowboater here - though leisure not liveaboard. We moor our 40-footer in Worcester, just off the Severn. I worked with the canals for many years, including a spell at British Waterways and then editing Waterways World magazine, and I still draw the maps for WW. I have a 75%-finished canal mapping app I really need to get round to releasing…
I understand the vocabulary that I've never read before but it's like reading a passage from the 18th century. :)
I was surprised at the rivers in the middle of the Sahara. But upon zooming in on Google satellite view, I do see dry riverbeds in those places, and even the occasional tree along the route of the 'river', so I guess occasionally there must be a storm and those rivers become wet and flow.
Similarly i was surprised to find its marked a river in my village i didn't know existed. Turns out its the drainage ditch they dug to stop the new Barrett boxes from flooding. I think the data may need some work....
Well If you want to, mapping around local village is good way to start.
I've been waiting for the day that HN would have something tangentially related to the English and Welsh canal system so I could gush about it. For those that don't know, we have around 2500 miles of (mostly) navigable canals around the UK. They were built during the industrial revolution prior to the invention of trains such that we could transport coal and other goods relatively quickly and without damage (consider…