An illegal track in a national park is likely to be one that is cut without the authority of the managing agency. It’s a fairly regular occurrence and often the start of increased impacts in ares that may be reserved for conservation rather than recreation.
Cheers - Phil, On the road with his iPad > On 23 Oct 2020, at 6:09 pm, Andrew Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 at 16:08, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am writing as someone who does voluntary work for a Parks Service. I >> have personal experience with the loop: people use a path because its >> mapped, the path is mapped because it exists because people use it.... >> >> It takes an enormous amount of work to repeatedly deconstruct a track, >> allowing time for it to grow over, to be able to remove it from OSM >> because it no longer exists. > > It doesn't need to be completely revegetated to be "removed", if it's closed > by authorities and signposted or otherwise indicated it's not open for use > then I'd be fine with marking it as disused or abandoned per > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lifecycle_prefix#Stages_of_decay. > >> * national parks illegal tracks > > I hear this phrase a lot, but honestly don't quite understand what it means. > In NSW at least, a park authority may "by means of notices displayed in, or > at the boundary of, the park or part of the park to which the notices relate > or by means of written notices given to park users ... close the park, or any > part of the park, to the public", and hence make it illegal to use, but the > track itself is not illegal, only illegal to use and in OSM we can easily map > these as access=no + some kind of lifecycle prefix stage of decay tag like > disused or abandoned.
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