[Talk-ca] Tourist attraction on private land

[John Whelan]

I might suggest just removing the tourist attraction tags and put a note 
on it saying on private property with no access hence no tourist attraction.

Not perfect but whatever you do someone in the geo caching community may 
well tag it again unless a note is left.

When dealing with the complaint I'd mention it does seem to be 
referenced many times on the web.

Cheerio John

Frederik Ramm wrote on 7/9/2021 5:07 PM:
> 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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