Have you seen https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/National_Trust_Paths
Ed ________________________________ From: Chris Smith <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2025 8:29:11 PM To: Talk Gb <[email protected]> Subject: [Talk-GB] Do we map what exists or what the landowner wants to exist? I was recently in the Derbyshire Peak District and visited the well known area of Dovedale. There is a small hill next to the River known as Thorpe Cloud which we walked up it appear to belong to the National Trust.. We started walking around the hill in an anti-clockwise direction. We came to a number of very obvious paths up the hill on which were notices saying that the paths were closed to prevent erosion. Eventually we came to one that was not marked like that and used it to go to the summit. The going was quite difficult - steep and slippery rock and the path not always clear. The result was that we accidentally came back down by path slightly further around the hill. When I got home and looked at the area on OSM I was surprised to find that the path we used to go up was the only one shown. This is the area https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?node=600372181#map=15/53.05701/-1.77293 A large number of edits around there have been done by NTTrailsMEE which looks as if it is used by a National Trust Employee. The profile started editing in April this year and has been very active on weekdays since then. https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/NTTrailsMEE Whilst I can understand the NT trying to direct walkers away from some paths, this doesn't seem in accordance with OSM principles that we map what is on the ground. I wondered what the group thought about this? Chris Smith Allotmentcyclist
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