[Talk-us-massachusetts] Fwd: Target Traill

Thu Oct 5 22:42:48 UTC 2017

Hi,

In Groton, We have been using the following tags.

name - only if the trail has an actual name
operator - if the trail is being officially maintained by somebody,
say mass Audubon or the "Groton Trails Committee", etc ...
symbol - if the trail is blazed, the name of the blaze.
access - public or private.

We don't use it, because we don't show it on our maps, but you could also
use the colour tag and the osmc:symbol tags.

Jason

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Alan & Ruth Bragg <alan.ruth.bragg at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
> 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
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> 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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