[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap US update

[Andrew Wiseman]

I'm not part of this effort but I am guessing it's related to how to handle
unofficial, informal or trails, like previous discussions here have talked
about.

The article links to this page https://openstreetmap.us/our-work/trails/
which has lots of info, and that links to this OSM Wiki page that talks
about tagging standards and more
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Trail_Access_Project

Andrew

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 6:13 AM Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

> Nellie Blair <nellie at openstreetmap.us> writes:
>
> > 1) With the support of volunteers and land managers, the OpenStreetMap US
> > Trails Stewardship Initiative is launching our first statewide campaign
> > aiming to update trail information on 60,000+ miles of trails in
> > OpenStreetMap across Utah public lands. Learn more in our latest blog
> post:
> > https://openstreetmap.us/news/2023/10/trails-utah-campaign/
>
> Reading this, it smells like "a group of land managers is going to
> remove data from OSM that they don't like even if it is accurate".  Can
> you point to someplace public that talks more about this "initiative",
> who the members are, and why we should be confident that the actions
> taken are in line with OSM community norms?
>
> I second Mike's concerns in general, and find the phrasing "official and
> approved sources" concerning.  This is effectively an import, and it
> appears not to be doing the quality control required to validate that
> this "official" data is accurate enough.
>
> Also, it looks like people that don't accept Slack's terms are excluded
> from participaing or finding out what is going on.
>
> Greg (mapper since 2009, often mapping trails)
>
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