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

[Michael Collinson]

I haven't seen any discussion of this tag as informal=yes or perhaps 
usefully extended to informal=animal_track

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:informal

And FYI, there is a whole discussion on discouraged or closed paths in 
talk-au where park rangers are often keen to completely remove such 
paths. Opinion is split on whether that is a good idea or whether they 
should stay with appropriate tagging for navigation purposes (which as a 
hiker who occasionally got confused with OS maps not showing everything 
on the ground - I agree whole heartedly) and "well, it will just get put 
back".

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2022-January/thread.html

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2022-January/015541.html

Mike

On 2022-02-06 07:50, Tom Crocker wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2022, 16:59 Dudley Ibbett, <dudleyibbett at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>     If there is an issue of this becoming popular then I guess the
>     land owner will need to make a decision about whether they want to
>     discourage access on the ground by putting up notices/fences to
>     avoid further erosion of the landscape.  I have seen this done by
>     the National Trust and other organisations.
>
>     Again, if safety is a real issue a warning notice on the ground
>     might be a consideration.
>
>
> If signs were put up then access=discouraged; foot=discouraged tags 
> would seem appropriate, although again whether they are evaluated 
> appropriately is another matter.
>
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