[Talk-GB] Private tracks through a farmyard

[Jass Kurn]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 at 13:43, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22/04/2022 12:53, Martin Wynne wrote:
> > I have some sympathy for OS here.
>
> I struggle to share that sympathy.
>
The Ordnance Survey cannot claim ignorance of the laws in England and
> Wales (or the Scottish Outdoor access code).  If their map app
> developers (Mapbox was mentioned earlier) failed to cater for it it's
> down to the problems with specification that the OS provided to them.
>

I agree strongly with this. We're not talking about developers of a
start-up app. OS are globally recognised and expert in their field.


>  In this particular instance they may need to talk
> to the OS about some of their other products as well - the OS Explorer
> imagery visible from https://www.bing.com/maps (though not my 2004 paper
> copy) clearly shows https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/822332425/history
>
>
Two of the deleted tracks, better described as service roads, leading up to
the two farms appear on bing road maps & google road maps. It can't be
acceptable for them to be removed from OSM but present on OS Maps, Google
Maps, and Bing Maps. Especially when the issue is poor use of the data by
OS Maps. We'll also probably see them redrawn as service roads by Amazon at
some point without access=private/destination.

Jass
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