[Talk-us] OSM US Trails Working Group

[Tod Fitch]

For what it is worth, the United States Trail Access wiki page seems like a really good summary of the situation and the suggested tagging seems very reasonable to me. My thanks to the people who put that together.

I look forward to discussions on suggested rendering. I have been mulling over how I can change the rendering on my maps to cover these use cases and haven’t settled on anything yet. It will be interesting to see how other styles render these different trail possibilities.

I just joined Slack and I see multiple references to the meeting next week but I don’t see how I can access or attend that meeting.

—Tod

> On Oct 8, 2021, at 9:24 AM, Zeke Farwell <ezekielf at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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 <mailto: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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