[Talk-us] Jefferson Notch Road and latest "GPS made me do it" in the news

[Tod Fitch]

In the California Sierra Nevada I tagged a couple of roads with:

conditional:access=“no @ (Nov-May)”
note=“Seasonal closure from first snow until spring, see CalTrans website for status”
website=“http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi”

With the barrier=gate at either end of the seasonal section tagged with the same conditional:access and note tags.

In retrospect, I probably should have used a description tag rather than a note tag for the descriptive text.

—Tod

> On Jan 1, 2020, at 7:08 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Burlington Family Rescued After GPS Leads Minivan Down Snowmobile Path. BURLINGTON (CBS)
> > It was an early morning rescue by ATV Sunday in Jefferson, New Hampshire.
> > ... The family was stranded on Jefferson Notch Road, which is restricted to snowmobiles only during the winter months.
> > 2 days ago
> > https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2019/12/29/burlington-family-stranded-after-following-gps-onto-snowmobile-trail <https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2019/12/29/burlington-family-stranded-after-following-gps-onto-snowmobile-trail>
> 
> Yeah, I'm not surprised that a road that goes literally through Jefferson Notch isn't plowed in the winter; the road's high point in the notch (aka "col" or "saddle," the diminutive of "pass") is 3,009 feet (917 m), only barely below the height of Mount Mitten (929 m) which the road passes, and lower than Currier Mtn (838 m) just beyond.  Yeah that's not high in young mountains, but at this latitude, that altitude gets plenty snow. I expect even the winter snowmobile path through the notch should be attempted only by parties of multiple experienced operators prepared for mountains' changeable conditions.
> 
> (I'm guessing the gating/bollards will get upgraded so that only snowmobiles, Cats, and emergency 4WD/6WD even /can/ enter during winter.)
> 
> In the summer, this road will provide a lovely if challenging shortcut between US 2 and US 302, of which there are precious few in the environs of Mt Washington and the Presidential Range of the White Mountains.
> 
> OSM - https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/18846225#map=12/44.3103/-71.3696 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/18846225#map=12/44.3103/-71.3696>
> Our way does not (as of this writing) show a tag indicating seasonally variable access.
> Proposed tag winter_service <>=no <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:winter_service%3Dno&action=edit&redlink=1> isn't quite strong enough but would be a start.
> 
> What is the right way to tag a road which is 3 season dramatic automobile mountain short-cut and one-season snowmobile trail?
> 
> 
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