<div dir="ltr"><div>A few from my own records:</div><div><ul><li>Carmarthenshire near Carmarthen I <a href="http://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/2011/07/footpaths-in-carmarthenshire-whats-point.html">documented</a> a while back. Signage is often absent and far too many PRoWs were, for all intents & purposes blocked. Several went through front gardens (including that of my sister's neighbour, which was why I was coy about the actual locations). Even ones which were signed proved difficult to follow on the ground. In practice I only mapped ones which I had walked, not ones signed from the road as experience taught me to regard this as unreliable.</li><li>Somewhere in <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/50.9770/-0.6492">this area</a> alongside the Rother, I mapped a path which robbieonsea had found impassable in the previous summer, but was fine in early Spring. I can't remember the precise reason, but think it was because the path was overgrown. Tall herb (basically nettles I'd imagine) may only be a serious obstacle in summer).<br></li><li>In a couple of instances I've reported an overgrown path to the local authority and had word back that the footpaths officer had cleared the obstruction (near <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/111626203#map=17/52.99293/-1.26652">Swingate</a>, and near <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/660697683">Osleston</a>). The Osleston obstruction was a Blackthorn thicket which I mapped, but didn't have time to return when we were in the area at New Year. In the first case I got along the 'path', in the second I'd surveyed it from the other end, so the route was obvious.</li><li>Scalford (Leics) <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/465782029">FP 23</a> is marked on current and old maps, but no sign of it at the NW end. However there is a stile about 3 foot into the hawthorn hedge at the Southern end, so the notional line is obvious. In this case I mapped the route because there was sufficient on the ground evidence. The path was obstructed by farm buildings long ago.</li><li>Hickling (Notts) <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/367148913">FP2</a> goes from the Hickling-Long Clawson Road to the S bank of the Grantham Canal. It is not signed by the council, and the gate from the road is locked. Mapped because I know it exists and checked the gates in case I'd got the wrong one. I haven't walked it though, but being able to follow the line was one reason I put it on OSM. I was specifically interested in this because there is very little of Hectad SK72 in Nottinghamshire and this prow potentially provided access to different habitats.</li><li>The area S of Long Lane (Derbyshire) specialises in overgrown stiles. John, Tom & I managed to get through them, but having more than one person helped greatly. The previous year reporting issues was very successful, but I didn't do it this year.</li><li><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/51.18570/0.81308">Hothfield, Kent</a>. I had a short, abortive, pre-breakfast attempt to map some footpaths. Some were obstructed, but others it was just hard to work out the route. I only mapped what I walked and a few things I saw. I never received any response to my reports to the highway authority, despite having taken the trouble of creating an account on their system to make the reports in the first case.</li></ul><div>In general footpath officers for Notts, Derbys & Leics have been very responsive to my reports and queries. They obviously have given up on some more-or-less defunct PRoWs (Scalford FP23 & Hickling FP2) when alternatives exist or when the path doesn't go anywhere. Elsewhere this is not true, and in these places it's probably safe to assume obstructions are permanent. In the latter case I have just not mapped the path, but other on-the-ground evidence (e.g., the track which
AW 127 presumably follows).</div><div><br></div><div>Jerry<br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 13:52, Andy Townsend <<a href="mailto:ajt1047@gmail.com">ajt1047@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
How do people normally map things like "I know there is a public <br>
footpath that goes through here but it is currently inaccessible"?<br>
<br>
A taginfo search finds a few candidates:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/search?q=overgrown#values" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/search?q=overgrown#values</a><br>
<br>
<a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/search?q=inaccessible#values" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/search?q=inaccessible#values</a><br>
<br>
<a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/search?q=blocked#values" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/search?q=blocked#values</a><br>
<br>
So far <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/overgrown" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/overgrown</a> seems the <br>
nearest (it's undocumented but mentioned on <br>
<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hiking" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hiking</a> ). However, I'm sure that <br>
there are examples that I've missed. Most seem to be used within note <br>
tags which can of course contain any old text - are there any actual <br>
non-note tags and values that are used for this that I'm missing?<br>
<br>
Best Regards,<br>
<br>
Andy<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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