[talk-au] Deletion of informal paths by NSW NPWS

[Tom Brennan]

It's been a couple of months, and Gaia has now refreshed its tiles based 
on the updates I made for Kanangra.

The informal tracks are now rendered with significantly less priority 
than the formal tracks. I should have taken a screenshot of before, but 
I didn't. The formal tracks look to be the same style as previous, but 
the informal tracks are now faint.

https://www.gaiagps.com/map/?loc=14.3/150.1142/-33.9881

I did miss a few small tracks - I was focussed at the large scale.

I don't know how other downstream applications render the same data - 
I'm not on Strava for example.

This could be useful for working with NPWS.

cheers
Tom
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On 25/02/2024 11:09 pm, Tom Brennan wrote:
> I thought I'd see if the tagging details in the US Trail Access Project 
> link might be useful for Australia.
> 
> I tagged all of the tracks out at Kanangra - mainly because it has a mix 
> of tracks, but few enough that it's easy to cover them all - with 
> operator=NPWS or informal as appropriate. Basically the maintained ones 
> with operator tags, others as informal.
> 
> I know Gaia (for example) renders informal tracks with less priority 
> than formal tracks, though I don't know exactly the combinations of tags 
> they are focussing on. I believe they refresh their tiles every 2-3 
> weeks so I'll have a look again in a few weeks.
> 
> If you're into mapping bush tracks, I hacked an Overpass Turbo query 
> which does a pretty good job of visualising some of the useful tags (and 
> where tags are missing). Happy to share.
> 
> cheers
> Tom
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> 
> On 24/02/2024 8:10 am, Mark Pulley wrote:
>> I had suggested changing to access=no, or adding a disused: prefix 
>> (mainly to keep NPWS happy), but looking at this page, the 
>> recommendation seems to be to keep the tags as they are now 
>> (access=discouraged, informal=yes).
>>
>> Mark P.
>>
>>> On 23 Feb 2024, at 7:29 pm, Tom Brennan <website at ozultimate.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Given this thread is still going, the US has a useful collaboration 
>>> resource between mappers and land managers
>>>
>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Trail_Access_Project
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> Tom
>>
>>
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