[talk-au] Deletion of walking tracks/paths

[Phil Wyatt]

Hi Folks,

I agree that a good discussion is useful but at the same time the OSM
community needs to understand what a hassle it can be to have these tracks
in OSM and having no, or little, control on how any other app/web interface
may show them.

I actually favour deletion as well but understand that is not the 'OSM way
of doing things'. A full discussion may help the agency, and OSM
contributors understand the issues on both sides.

I also think it would be useful for others to join in the US trails group so
that a more international perspective can be applied to this issue. The
situation can be very different across countries (especially legally).

Cheers - Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: forster at ozonline.com.au <forster at ozonline.com.au> 
Sent: Monday, 24 January 2022 4:53 PM
To: nwastra nwastra <nwastra at gmail.com>
Cc: talk OSM Australian List <Talk-au at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Deletion of walking tracks/paths

Hi Nev

I am encouraged by Guy's response. If Parks NSW can be persuaded to funnel
all/most such map changes through one person like Guy it could be good.

Invite him to join talk-au so he can understand why illegal tracks are such
a difficult problem for Parks and OSM.

Eventually it would be good to get the tracks undeleted and modified with a
lifecycle prefix but the discussion is more important at this stage than the
outcome.

Thanks
Tony


> For info and with some regard to recent discussion of US Trails   
> Working Group?
>
> I noticed a lot of paths being deleted by this user as requested by   
> a National Park Ranger.
>
> I commented with some suggestions and received the following reply   
> in comments...
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/116520175
>
> https://nrenner.github.io/achavi/?changeset=116519029
> https://nrenner.github.io/achavi/?changeset=116520175
>
> I am inclined to leave to others to consider.
> I would rather they be left in the OSM and tagged in a different way  
> for various reasons but I expect we have little choice but to accept  
> the NPWS decision.
>
> Nev Wedding
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