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

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

It would be interesting to see what Strava shows, so yes, please, Tom, I'd
like to see the OT link.

Thanks

Graeme


On Sun, 25 Feb 2024 at 22:22, Tom Brennan <website at ozultimate.com> 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
> ----
> Canyoning? try http://ozultimate.com/canyoning
> Bushwalking? try http://bushwalkingnsw.com
>
> 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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