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

[Martin Wynne]

On 05/02/2022 15:27, David Woolley wrote:
> On 05/02/2022 15:06, Martin Wynne wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> That would be tagging for the renderer. Moreover, validation  tools 
> might highlight the error, and armchair mappers might then reinstate the 
> missing section.
>

Everything I ever suggest is dismissed as "tagging for the renderer".

I have never understood what is so terrible about that, given that the 
object of the exercise is to create a MAP (the clue is in the name 
OpenStreetMap) which hopefully will be useful to folks using it. The 
name is not OpenTechnicallyPerfectGeographicalDatabase.

If this path is a genuine hazard to inexperienced walkers, perhaps you 
could go out and physically rough up a section of it so that it is no 
longer visible on the ground?

You could then justifiably remove a section of the path from the map, on 
the grounds that it doesn't exist on the ground.

Which is more important - life and limb or a perfect database?

Martin.