Hi, Unfortunately this seems to be a general issue with relations - I have had the same experience as you with walking routes, but also with public transport routes, and in both Spain and Ireland. I would guess that part of the problem is that these relations are not shown on the "standard layer" so mappers can easily not realise they have broken something. I recently found a horrible distortion in the Tipperary Heritage Way which I had left in good shape a year ago - it was very obvious on hiking.waymarked.trails.org, but easy to miss in an editor and invisible on any non-specialised map. I don't have any solution but would be interested in suggestions for monitoring specific trails - e.g. I know how to set up a feed for changes in a bounding box, but that doesn't really work here where I want to monitor changes to a single object that may extend a long distance.
On the Ulster Way, is part of the problem that the "modern" Ulster Way is a bit confusing in the real world? I am not sure how the "link sections" should be mapped - my understanding is that they are not waymarked on the ground - should they be mapped at all and if so is there verifiable data under a suitable licence? I think any attempt to fix the Way as a whole would need to set out a systematic approach to "quality sections" and "link section". One small point - maybe we should avoid using the word "vandalism" as that might suggest intentional damage and put people on the defensive - these issues are almost always unintended in my experience. Regards Alan On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 at 18:24, Killyfole and District Development Association <webmas...@killyfole.org.uk> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have done a lot of work on walking and cycling routes over the years, > but I > am finding that they are constantly being vandalised, mainly by > inexperienced > users not understanding the relations and removing/amending ways without > also > fixing the relations. > > I was wondering if there was a way to better educate new users in how > relations work and maybe setup a task group, who can monitor and make > contact > with people vandalising data who don't realise it and talk them through > what > they are doing wrong. Maybe this could be automated to ping the IRC > channel > when a relation is broken? > > I'd also like help in fixing up the existing routes, for example the > Ulster > Way, https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/918951 and I'm sure there are > many > others throughout the country. > > Kind regards, > KDDA > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
