[Talk-us-massachusetts] Trails on private land

[Jason Remillard]

Hi Alan,

I am on the trail committee for Groton. Collectively it is the
committee's job to know what trails are access=public,
access=permissive, access=private. We do our best to tag them
correctly in OSM.

We also had the debate on what to show in our map, after some time, we
decided to show the private trails in red, so that people knew to stay
off of them. Also, since we have over 100 miles of trails, people get
lost all the time, so we decided it would be better to show
everything.

Another good tag we use is the operator tag. If a trail is maintained
by somebody like the town trail committee or Mass Audubon, we tag it
with operator=, then we style them differently on our map.

https://www.grotontrails.org/Interactive_Maps.html

Jason



On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Alan & Ruth Bragg
<alan.ruth.bragg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had a chance encounter with Steve Tobin of the Carlise Trails Committee
> yesterday.
> We got to discussing town trial maps and he pointed out that he couldn't
> publish a map for the town that included trails on private land.
>
> My suggestion is that those trails be tagged access=private.
>
> The cartographic tool used to create the maps could either ignore private
> trails or render them in a way that indicates they are private.
>
> I'm wondering what progress the Acton folks have made on their conservation
> map.
>
> I'm going the the leaflet presentation at maptime Boston Tuesday night at 7.
> It's free and their new sponsor is providing pizza, drop me a note if you'd
> like to join me. I'm taking the T from Alwife.
>
> Alan
>
>
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