[talk-au] Unauthorised bike trails in national parks

[Brett Russell]

Hi

We have much the same issue with walking tracks and old surveying/mining roads is Tasmania.  Parks has played a very dominating roll with Tasmapi it is actually dangerous as you can be standing on a made road/track and as it does not appear on the map you can get confused and lost.   Also had a track appeared on a map a walking group could have walked out using it rather than calling in search and rescue to cross a flooded river. 

I use a simple rule, if it appears on the ground then it should appear in OSM.  I do fully agree that access should be no. 

Just my thoughts based on lot of ground truthing. Ie getting lost. 

Cheers
Brett Russell

> On 30 Jul 2015, at 12:09 pm, David Clark <dbclark at fastmail.com.au> wrote:
> 
> I lean towards mapping what's physically there, so if the trail exists I think it's ok to map it if you want to.
>  
> If the trail is blocked by a fence/barrier and signage saying keep out etc, then I think access=no would be appropriate as it's facts based on what's physically there.
>  
> I also default to "If in doubt, leave the map as it is". So if someone has mapped something and I'm not really sure of any changes I'm thinking of making are correct, then I leave it alone.
>  
> Anyway that's just my thoughts.
>  
>  
>> Hi
>>  
>> What (if any) is the correct tagging for unauthorised trails in
>> national and state parks?
>>  
>> For example, Ant Track
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/-37.92599/145.32051
>>  
>> I have spoken with Parks Vic and they request that bike riders do not
>> create additional trails and only use official trails. They would
>> prefer if such unofficial trails were not mapped or named because it
>> implies official status to park users.
>>  
>> I have not yet worked out how to contact the author of Ant Track.
>>  
>> Thanks
>> Tony
>>  
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