[OSM-talk] Rights of way again

[Donald Allwright]

>Tracks known to be private (something the Ordnance 

>Survey do not show, and therefore something that could be a big advantage 
>over OS maps) could be overlaid by a transparent red line to indicate "do 
>not go here".

I personally would be very wary of this approach, as "known to be private" can be a matter of opinion. Some landowners go to great lengths to deny access to anyone on their land, regardless of whether there is a public right of way or not. I have seen big "Private" signs in places which aren't private at all. Just the other day I was approached by a security guard on an industrial estate and told it was private property and that I had no right to be there and would I please remove myself. I checked later on an OS map and it turns out that I certainly would have a right to be there as a pedestrian (although in fact I was in a car at the time), so we shouldn't just trust what someone with a vested interest tells us. For that matter, the road I live on is "unadopted", so could technically be described as private (as indeed many unadopted roads are), but it wouldn't make any sense to mark it as private on OSM.

Donald



      
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