[Talk-us] OSM US Trails Working Group

[Tod Fitch]

> On Oct 9, 2021, at 6:49 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> 
> On 10/8/21 20:31, Tod Fitch wrote:
> 
>> I suspect the partial solution is to come up with a tagging scheme that the land managers can assure is enforced on their land. This will require them to monitor changesets affecting their land and to fix them as needed to fit the agreed upon tagging.
> 
> We don't usually allow anyone to "enforce" anything in "their" area in OSM so I'd try and be careful to not give them the wrong ideas ;)
> 

Perhaps “enforce” is a poor choice but surely if the land managers spend effort to “ensure tagging is consistent with the OSM wiki” we can not complain. The goal here would be to have a well defined and documented tagging scheme for trails.

In my limited experience [1] OSM does not currently have a consistent, well documented set of tags to even determine if a way is a hiking trail or not.

Cheers,
Tod

[1] https://retiredtechie.fitchfamily.org/2020/06/08/displaying-distance-between-trail-junctions-part-2/

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