[Talk-ca] Tourist attraction on private land

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

the DWG has received a complaint about 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1834726456, mapped as "Al Capone's 
Hideout" tourist attraction on Letterkenny Road, Quadeville, Ontario.

The complainant says that the fact of it being marked on the map leads 
to trespassing, and would like to have it removed.

But clearly it exists, and seems to be a bona fide tourist attraction 
(type "al capone hideout letterkenny" into your favourite search engine 
- you'll find some mentions of tourists not allowed, other mentions of 
driving your car up the hill).

Now if there were a path mapped that leads to the attraction I'd simply 
mark that as private. But there isn't even a path. Marking the 
attraction itself as private is something we could do, though it would 
likely not have any noticeable effect on trespassing - since no 
application would even process the access flag on a tourist attraction. 
If I were to write a hiking app I would certainly assume that "it's a 
tourist attraction so of course you can go there - why else would they 
have given it the tourist attraction status?"

Any suggestions of how to deal with this? Should we remove it? Mark it 
private? Draw the track and mark *that* private? (Problem is, due to 
tree cover the track isn't even visible...)

Bye
Frederik

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