[talk-au] Mapping easements

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

A note had been raised concerning mapping a Council access easement:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/2883145#map=19/-27.50901/153.03017

Suggestion was made that these should be leisure=nature_reserve as it is
not to be developed on?

I suggested that they're just highway=footway + surface=grass, possibly
with access=private if so signposted e.g:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/538670878

Alternative suggestion was landuse=easement?

Have just done some searching &, strangely, there are basically no
easements in OSM!
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=easement

The 13 "easements" are all in Australia for gas pipelines:
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1gXr,
while the 28 "easement_filed" are all in Florida for power lines:
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1gXs

The only other mentions of easements are in the wiki for US Public Lands:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Public_lands, together
with a brief mention in Massachusetts:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Massachusetts/Conservation

So, how would we like to map these areas?

3 alternatives would seem to be nature_reserve / landuse or highway?

Any other suggestions / thoughts?

What do we all think?

Thanks

Graeme
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