[Talk-GB] Blocked / overgrown / inaccessible footpaths and bridleways

[Dave F]

All
The most important thing to do in situations like this is to contact the 
LA responsible & ask them to clear it.

As I said on the preceding discussion of this topic in Talk, many of 
these descriptions are subjective. What you or I may consider completely 
impassible, others could be willing to hack/wade their way through.

Adding tags to inhibit routing/rendering is not the accurate way to 
proceed,

Use tags which accurately detail the physical conditions & leave it up 
to the user to decide if they wish to traverse  the path.

Even though i suggested Overgrown=yes as an example, it is subjective - 
Is it that the grass hasn't been mown for a few weeks or is it a Bornean 
rainforest?

DaveF

On 29/09/2020 13:51, Andy Townsend wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How do people normally map things like "I know there is a public 
> footpath that goes through here but it is currently inaccessible"?
>
> A taginfo search finds a few candidates:
>
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/search?q=overgrown#values
>
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/search?q=inaccessible#values
>
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/search?q=blocked#values
>
> So far https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/overgrown seems the 
> nearest (it's undocumented but mentioned on 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hiking ).  However, I'm sure that 
> there are examples that I've missed.  Most seem to be used within note 
> tags which can of course contain any old text - are there any actual 
> non-note tags and values that are used for this that I'm missing?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Andy
>
>
>
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