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

[Tom Crocker]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 at 21:41, Elizabeth Oldham <beth at the-hug.org> wrote:

> The path is clear over most of its length on (JOSM's) Bing aerial
> photography, less so at the western end where it joins the Pyg Track.
>
> It doesn't look like a goat or sheep trod, it looks like a desire line
> or ordinary mountain path. Backed up with heat traces on Strava. I'd
> certainly map it - it's what's on the ground.
>
> sac_scale tag seems appropriate information for renderers to decide if
> they want to draw it or not.
>

For what it's worth, the Eastern end (the clearly visible end) is a
'segment' in Strava: https://www.strava.com/segments/2813199
>From memory of using Strava years ago these are created by users as GPS
traces and independent of OSM data so whatever happens with the OSM way,
that will show up, if not with an underlying path. It also says 562 people
have attempted this part with the fastest male effort being 3:42 and the
fastest female time 5:16.

I'm aware the Strava/mapbox rendering doesn't show the cliffs, but I would
think it helpful for those using other renderers to add any cliffs there
may be along (it looks like there may be one about 3/4 along) and if the
path up to Garnedd Ugain isn't a climb up cliffs but picks its way between
gaps it would be helpful to show those gaps in the cliffs. Of interest, the
1:10,560 map shows a slightly different route to the north of the ridge
which appears visible on Bing but I've no idea if this is currently walked.
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