However, that assumes that you can trust the news to be accurate, and the distinction between "closed in winter" and "not maintained for winter travel" is not one I expect the news media to get right. The article I saw quoted the driver has having seen a "Not maintained for winter travel" sign and continuing because he didn't think that implied a closure (which is true, even if it may be a poor choice in a minivan).
Given that it is a snowmachine trail, "closed" seems more likely (and it would be exceedingly impolite to put wheel ruts into a groomed trail, even if legal), but it's been long enough since I traveled it that I can't recall the signage. My fuzzy recollection is a gate on the Base Station end. I can't find a definitive answer on the NH DOT site, and the WMNF MVUM shows it to be a non-forest road through the forest. On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 2:11 PM Mark Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 14:47:35 -0500 > Bill Ricker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Kevin asks, > > > is Jefferson Notch Road actually closed to wheeled vehicles in > > > winter or > > just not maintained? > > > > Per copyright news reports, it is signed as closed to wheeled > > vehicles, open to snow-machines only, in winter. > > (As should be obvious, to correctly tag this according to our > > license, we do need some on-the ground or license0compatible > > verification of the facts form the news, as well as a decision on > > what tags to use.) > > In the United States, facts can't be copyrighted, only specific ways of > expressing them. If a news article says "the road is closed in the > winter from Wherezit Junction to Anytown", you can freely extract the > fact of the closure, look for the OSM ways corresponding to the > description, and apply a "closed in the winter" tag. > > (If the news article instead has a map of the closure, the copyright > situation becomes more questionable, because now you're copying not > just the facts of the closure, but possibly the way they're expressed > as well.) > > -- > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- Kevin Broderick [email protected]
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