Sorry, my bad! I should have linked the "track" on the other side of Whalania Creek:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/963735356

cheers
Tom
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Canyoning? try http://ozultimate.com/canyoning
Bushwalking? try http://bushwalkingnsw.com

On 26/02/2023 8:20 pm, [email protected] wrote:
Hi

Am I missing something? I looked at way 952248376 and found a user Pieseczek with 2 changesets and 4 new ways over a year old. If there was any reference to Strava heat maps then I missed it. Is there any indication whether Pieseczek is resident in Australia apart from the likely origin of the name?

If the ways are solely based on heatmaps, they should be deleted because they can not be ground truthed. But they appear to map ridge lines. Were they made from the satellite photos or contours? Ridge lines can be ground truthed and belong on OSM.

I agree with Cleary on mapping of illegal trails but that may not be relevant in this case.

Tony

Do people have a view on the armchair mapping of tracks from Strava heatmaps?

I can see a bunch of tracks in Kanangra-Boyd NP that have been mapped
by an overseas mapper off Strava heatmap.

They almost certainly don't exist on the ground. They are known
bushwalking routes (off track), but would be very unlikely to have a
track even in good times, let along after the fires and 3 years of La
Nina!

Example:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/952248376

cheers
Tom
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Canyoning? try http://ozultimate.com/canyoning
Bushwalking? try http://bushwalkingnsw.com

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