[Talk-us] Trails

[Kevin Kenny]

If the trail is not prohibited but the land manager has expressed a
preference that people not use it, foot=discouraged is also a possibility

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 2:49 PM Zeke Farwell <ezekielf at gmail.com> wrote:

> All the points you mention have been very much a part of the conversation
> since fall of 2021 when this initiative
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Trail_Access_Project>
> began.  The proper tagging for trails like you've described would be:
>
> highway=path
> informal=yes
> foot=yes
> horse=no
> bicycle=no
>
> Although land managers wish the trail would just be removed from OSM, we
> aren't going to do that.  Instead we'll add appropriate tagging and
> encourse map renderers to process those tags accordingly.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 9:18 AM Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
>
>> Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I find it very hypocritical that land managers are complaining about
>> > OpenStreetMap trail data when their own data is full of inaccuracies.
>> > Perhaps Utah is different, but just around the area where I live in
>> > Colorado I have found hundreds of errors in government trail data,
>> > including cases of:
>>
>> Something else that may be missing from this conversation is that I've
>> observed:
>>
>>   a conservation area with some official trails
>>
>>   additional trails that are not on the official map and therefore
>>   declared as unmaintained
>>
>>   posted rules that *do not prohibit* hiking use of non-official trails
>>   (but do prohibit bike/horse use)
>>
>>   the non-official trails being in OSM
>>
>>   people being upset about the non-ocficial trails being in OSM because
>>   "then people will use them"
>>
>>   land managers being unwilling to post them closed or change the rules
>>
>>
>> I think it's important that we not be manipulated into mapping the usage
>> that people want, while rules allow that usage.
>>
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