[talk-au] Unmarked tracks (Figure of Eight Pools, NSW)

Andrew Harvey andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 13:27:49 UTC 2018


I'm seeking some feedback from the community about the way at
https://osmlab.github.io/osm-deep-history/#/way/157934548 should it exist
in OSM?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/136319147@N08/22832546277/in/datetaken-public/

There isn't really any marked track on the ground, which is a big reason to
not include, however it is a path in the sense that it's a way that people
follow pretty much every day or at least every weekend in droves, it just
hasn't formed a track that you can see like other bush tracks because shoes
don't ware away bear rock that fast compared to dirt! It's verifiable and
surveyable by observing people follow the path. The fact that it's unmarked
is recorded by trail_visibility=no (a documented and used tag) and that
it's over rock by the surface tag.

I'm vocal about not tagging for the renderer or routed, but from a map
rendering and routing perspective it's desired to have this way in OSM.

Thoughts?
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