[Talk-us-massachusetts] Fwd: Target Traill

Thu Oct 5 20:10:59 UTC 2017

Joe Holmes recently contacted me with some interesting thoughts on trail
marking.

Joe "
About 20 days ago you worked on trails in the new area just south of
Annurnsac Conservation Land. You are being inconsistent in how you are
marking the blaze colors. Sometimes just "Red", sometimes "blue blazed",
sometimes "Main Trail (yellow blazes)". I suggest that you leave off the
word "blazed" or "blazes".
"

I agree and will remove "blaze, blazed, blazes" I think the type of trail
and blaze color needs to be specified.
name=Main Trail (yellow) works for me.

Concord  yellow=main, red=secondary, blue=connecting
Bedford: blue=main, orange=secondary, yellow=access

Joe "
What we do in Acton is for a unnamed, but blazed trail (most of them) we
just name it the color of the blazes. Our named trails have the name and
the color. Our display software picks up on the color in the name, and
draws it in that color, and suppresses the color in the name. For
unblazed trails, we give no name.
"

You also have a lot of trails named "social trail". If by this you mean
a trail on private land with no official public access, I suggest you
tag it in OSM as access=private. And don't name it, unless it is
actually a trail called "social trail". This is what we do. And our
display software suppresses showing any private trails.
"

I've always wondered how to tag a trial that is not "official". When I'm
mapping in the field, I explore every right turn to it's end.
This often leads me off formal public trails.

I will also tag a trail that clearly goes onto private land like someone's
back yard with access=private however if the trail is on any land in the
Mass GIS open space layer I would not.

I started using "social trail" when a more experienced mapper suggested it
to me. There was a proposal for "social_path
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Social_path>" It was
withdrawn in favor of highway=path
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpath> plus access=no
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:access%3Dno> and informal
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:informal>=yes

How should I tag the trail when:
It's not posted as "No Trespassing"
It's posted "No Hunting"
It's used by mountain bikers as a jump or stunt trail.
It's on public land but not on the town trial map.

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