[Talk-us-massachusetts] Trails on private land

[Jim Snyder-Grant]

Thanks for the suggestion about operator=. That seems like a very helpful
idea for us to explore.

Jim Snyder-Grant
18 Half Moon Hill
Acton MA 01720
508 572-2985


On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

>
> Jason Remillard <remillard.jason at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> I'm glad to see acceptance that explaining how the world is and giving
> permission to use any particular feature are different.
>
> Colors are tricky.  Acton is particularly consistent about yellow loops,
> blue internal connecting, and red access from roads.  Then one needs to
> show unblazed trails (brown?) and permissive and private.  Ideally the
> non-endorsed trails would have lower visual weight, too.  I see that the
> Groton map has solid and dashed green, so there red works for private.
> But it seems the usual conservation commission map wants to have colored
> lines matching the blazes.
>
> > 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.
>
> That sounds like it could address the Acton policy concern, by only
> rendering trails with an operator tag that matches town-of-acton or
> acton-conservation-trust, or whatever is the approved list.
>
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