[Tagging] Tagging Digest, Vol 134, Issue 130 animal tracks ?

[Paul Allen]

On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 22:35, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 22:24, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Here is a videoabout a bridleway.  Which is also a footpath (by legal
>> definition).  In fact,
>> it's also a Byway Open to All Traffic (BOAT).  Most of the time it's the
>> ONLY way to visit Foulnes Island.  It's also the most dangerous
>> path in Britain.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM7C_Pw7OL8
>>
>
> & which we do indeed have mapped:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/158785097#map=14/51.5857/0.9244
>

And which somebody edited 2 hours ago (as I write this).  I suspect
that person read my previous mail or saw the video.

Which then goes back to the discussions we were having a while back about
> tagging the "dangerousness" of tracks.
>

Indeed it does.  Quicksand.  Tide.  Unexploded ordnance.  Maybe drop
bears, too.

Yes, it's marked as being a ford, tidal=yes, & visibility=no, which
> suggests it's not the spot for a Sunday afternoon stroll, but it's also
> marked as foot, horse, bicycle, car & motorbike=yes, which then suggests it
> can't be too bad after all?
>

That's legal access, not sane access.  You are legally permitted to drive
any legal road vehicle on it, but you would be crazy to do so.

>
> The basic facts given in that video could be included as a description,
> but shouldn't we have some sort of "danger" classification?
>

When we've figured out the tagging for dangers.

-- 
Paul
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