[Talk-us] OSM US Trails Working Group

[Zeke Farwell]

Recently a number of us attended the "Mappy Hour" presentation "Trails in
OpenStreetMap <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXXGkBVJK-o>" by Keri Nelson
of the National Park Service.  Keri described the damages our public land
managers are seeing from visitors following informal/social trails and
non-trail routes shown on popular hiking maps that use OpenStreetMap data
such as AllTrails, CalTopo, and GaiaGPS.

This has initiated a public discussion on the OSM US slack
<https://slack.openstreetmap.us/>  #trails channel
<https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C1US5SFUH> on how to better support
responsible recreation through OpenStreetMap.  OSM US is also forming a
trails working group focused on these issues.  The group is made up of OSM
mappers, trail map providers, and land managers.  The first meeting is next
Wednesday 10/13.  Anyone who is interested in helping resolve these issues
is welcome to join the discussion on slack <https://slack.openstreetmap.us/>,
and/or contact Maggie Crawley <maggie at openstreetmap.us> to participate in
the working group meetings.  We have also started a United States Trail
Access wiki page
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Trail_Access_Project> to
document this effort.

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Zeke Farwell
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