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

[Tom Brennan]

Here's the basics:
	https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1HOH

I nicked the starting point off the US Trail Access Project page and 
adapted it a bit.

Hard to show up all the different things that are useful in tagging a 
track as there's only so many styles available!

cheers
Tom
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On 26/02/2024 12:01 pm, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
> 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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