[Talk-GB] Private tracks through a farmyard
Mark Goodge
mark at good-stuff.co.uk
Fri Apr 22 16:10:59 UTC 2022
On 22/04/2022 16:53, Jass Kurn wrote:
>
> 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.
Indeed, and that's another reason why simply deleting them isn't the
solution. It currently leaves a farm in the middle of a field with no
routeable access. So sooner or later, that access road will be
reinstated by data consumers who legitimately need a route, even along a
private road.
Mark
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