<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 19:26, Anne-Karoline Distel <<a href="mailto:annekadistel@web.de">annekadistel@web.de</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>I will have a good think about it, obviously restricted access needs
to be marked. The one I mapped had a kissing gate at the end, that's
how I got thinking that it must be something more than just an
ordinary path.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure that a kissing gate is an indication of the destination/usage of</div><div>a path. The only one I've mapped gave access to a cemetery and a quick</div><div>search on google indicates they were common for access to graveyards.</div><div>Possibly because stiles pose problems for women wearing their sunday</div><div>best and gates can be left open. Animals nibbling grass in a graveyard</div><div>was probably seen as not showing sufficient respect for the dead or</div><div>something. As for access, destination or customers might work.<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Your council's mapping requirements seem to be getting
more and more</div>
<div>esoteric. Would it be better to let them use uMap for
these things?</div>
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Must be the lockdown, I don't know. They see it as heritage and
rightly so. It's probably to do with prevention of littering or
something.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If they just want a map they can use for their own purposes, and they come</div><div>up with things to map that are hard to justify as having utility in OSM</div><div>itself, uMap might be the way to go. They can mark whatever they</div><div>want, however frivolous. Not that I'm saying the things you wanted</div><div>ways of mapping so far don't fit OSM, but it sounds like they might</div><div>eventually want things that don't fit at all.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>