[Talk-GB] Advice please: Goat tracks in mountain areas

[Philip Barnes]

On Sat, 2022-02-05 at 15:06 +0000, Martin Wynne wrote:
> On 05/02/2022 14:26, Gruff Owen wrote:
> 
> > For balance, a small number of walkers do choose to follow this
> > track 
> > deliberately, but that is rare as it covers poor ground and is not
> > very 
> > enjoyable terrain. With loose bouldery ground and a number of steep
> > gullies where we have attended a number of serious accidents / 
> > fatalities over the years.
> > 
> > In terms of access rights. It is not a Public RIght of Way, but it
> > does 
> > sit within CRoW 2001 Access Land.
> > 
> > The reason this has come to my attention is that Strava have now
> > updated 
> > their background mapping from OSM, and it is now one of the newly 
> > brought in "paths" which their users will be able to see on the map
> > as a 
> > potential route.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> How about removing a few yards of it somewhere in the middle, or 
> wherever it becomes the least distinct on the ground. It would then 
> appear as two dead ends and not be routeable over.

Please do not do this, it is (miss-)tagging for the renderer (or in
this case router.

Phil (trigpoint)