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Nick's description is "overgrown, unclear, prone to flooding"<br>
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These are all subjective interpretations.<br>
There are many official PROW's in those conditions. <br>
It doesn't mean they're "abandoned" or "disused".<br>
It doesn't mean someone isn't prepared to wade or hack their way
through.<br>
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Accurate descriptions of the path's state(s) are required. Tags
something like: Overgrown=yes, flooding=intermittent etc.<br>
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DaveF<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/09/2020 17:03, Mike Thompson
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<div>I use:</div>
<div>disused:highway=path/footway/etc</div>
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<div>abandoned:highway=path/footway/etc</div>
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<div>If it is totally gone, I still tend to leave the way with
"note=There is no longer a path here, the land manager
restored the area to its natural state sometime before
<date>", (or whatever is appropriate) this provides some
assurance that someone doesn't add it back to OSM using and
old source (imagery, GPX tracks, etc).</div>
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Hi,</div>
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Wondering if there was a consensus on tagging an
abandoned, no longer very usable path (e.g. a path
which has become overgrown or is unclear and prone to
flooding in wetter periods). Something like
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<p>My 2p:</p>
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<p>Perhaps use "trail_visibility" through the lifecycle of
the path as it changes from "being obvious on the ground"
to "not being there at all"?</p>
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<p>Once it's definitely disappeared, I'd have no qualms
about deleting it altogether. Sometimes I update the tags
on a path before deleting it to something like
"note=nothing on this alignment any more". <br>
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<p>If it's still visible on imagery, I'd be tempted to leave
that note there (without a highway tag) to stop someone
retracing it.</p>
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<p>Best Regards,</p>
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<p>Andy</p>
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