<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 1:16 PM ben via Talk-us-massachusetts <<a href="mailto:talk-us-massachusetts@openstreetmap.org">talk-us-massachusetts@openstreetmap.org</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">Local news report that the prison is no longer operating as of earlier this month: <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-07-18/mci-concord-closes-after-nearly-150-years" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-07-18/mci-concord-closes-after-nearly-150-years</a><br>
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I haven't been past since then, but I agree that it's unlikely that there is now free public access to the grounds, as the map currently suggests.<br>
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This should probably be tagged as a disused prison, not a generic historic site.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">RIGHT. As long as the wall is there, yes, the wall should still be a wall.<br></div><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">FWIW the Wall is still a closed-path way in OSM, but its tagging was changed so that it's invisible in most renders.</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/86977109/history">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/86977109/history</a></div></div><br><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">(If OTOH the gates are unlocked and public is tacitly welcome for URBEX, that should be tagging on the gate and access tags, not removing a wall that hasn't been physically removed.)<br></div><br></div>