[Talk-GB] revert a new person's edits

[Chris Hodges]

OS's "other road, drive, or track" also covers both publicly accessible and private ways, so it shouldn't be completely unfamiliar to someone who can read a map and is used to OS. 

I'm not sure how many people use the default render anyway - most people walking with OSM will probably be using OSMand or similar. I use MapsForge via Ipbike and that does try to show both RoW and track type - if only I could remember the legend (I plan on Komoot using the OpenCyvleMap render) 

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On 9 Feb 2021, 17:03, at 17:03, Mark Goodge <mark at good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
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>
>On 09/02/2021 16:42, Nick Whitelegg via Talk-GB wrote:
>> 
>> I think it's certainly conceivable that there might be more 
>> private-track usage by the general public in this area than average,
>due 
>> to the lack of options, so maybe the new person is feeling a little 
>> sensitive. Certainly the tone of their comments did sound a little 
>> stressed: 'this is a private track and it SHOULD NOT be on 
>> OpenStreetMap' or something lke that...
>
>Part of the problem here is that, unlike OS maps, the standard OSM 
>render doesn't show right of way status. You can get it by querying 
>individual features, but there's nothing visible in the layer itself.
>So 
>it's not unreasonable that someone more familiar with the OS way of 
>doing things will look at a track on OSM and assume that its presence
>on 
>the map implies that it's publicly accessible - or, at least, that the 
>mapper thinks it's publicly accessible.
>
>> Of course the solution is more public access to the countryside, but 
>> this is another issue entirely....
>
>And another solution, if and when it ever becomes a thing, is for an 
>OSM-GB stylesheet to include right of way status as part of the default
>
>render.
>
>Mark
>
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