[talk-au] Unauthorised bike trails in national parks

2015-07-29 Thread forster
Hi What (if any) is the correct tagging for unauthorised trails in national and state parks? For example, Ant Track https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/-37.92599/145.32051 I have spoken with Parks Vic and they request that bike riders do not create additional trails and only use

[talk-au] [SA] Survey marks released as open data

2015-07-29 Thread Alex Sims
Hi, I’ve noticed that the SA Survey marks have been released as open data on the 27th of July (3 days ago) https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/survey-marks-and-survey-mark-plans-reference https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/survey-marks-and-survey-mark-plans-reference This should be quite

Re: [talk-au] Unauthorised bike trails in national parks

2015-07-29 Thread Warin
On 30/07/2015 10:20 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Hi What (if any) is the correct tagging for unauthorised trails in national and state parks? For example, Ant Track https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/-37.92599/145.32051 I have spoken with Parks Vic and they request that bike

Re: [talk-au] Unauthorised bike trails in national parks

2015-07-29 Thread Andrew Davidson
If the path exists then shouldn't it be tagged access=no + foot=yes?  From:fors...@ozonline.com.au fors...@ozonline.com.au Date:Thu, 30 Jul, 2015 at 11:53 Subject:Re: [talk-au] Unauthorised bike trails in national parks Thanks for the replies The track exists and is mappable. It is not blocked

Re: [talk-au] Unauthorised bike trails in national parks

2015-07-29 Thread David Clark
I lean towards mapping what's physically there, so if the trail exists I think it's ok to map it if you want to. If the trail is blocked by a fence/barrier and signage saying keep out etc, then I think access=no would be appropriate as it's facts based on what's physically there. I also

Re: [talk-au] Unauthorised bike trails in national parks

2015-07-29 Thread David Clark
The access issues get very murchy very quickly. We have a Forestry area that is clearly signposted for bikes to stick to vehicle tracks, however for 10 years or more Forestry has sponsored volunteer mountain bikers to build and maintain trails in this area. Go figure. Parks have a category for

Re: [talk-au] Unauthorised bike trails in national parks

2015-07-29 Thread Brett Russell
Hi We have much the same issue with walking tracks and old surveying/mining roads is Tasmania. Parks has played a very dominating roll with Tasmapi it is actually dangerous as you can be standing on a made road/track and as it does not appear on the map you can get confused and lost. Also

Re: [talk-au] Unauthorised bike trails in national parks

2015-07-29 Thread Andrew Harvey
On 30 July 2015 at 11:52, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: The track exists and is mappable. It is not blocked off. Parks Vic prefers light handed regulation so I used mild language to describe the track status.

Re: [talk-au] Unauthorised bike trails in national parks

2015-07-29 Thread Paul Norman
On 7/29/2015 6:52 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Possibly tag it access=no and rename it to Track closed depending on how widely the name Ant Track is known. It may be known as Ant Track by a very small group of riders. The name might not be Ant Track, but it's almost certainly not Track

Re: [talk-au] Unauthorised bike trails in national parks

2015-07-29 Thread Ian Sergeant
On 30 July 2015 at 10:20, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: I have spoken with Parks Vic and they request that bike riders do not create additional trails and only use official trails. They would prefer if such unofficial trails were not mapped or named because it implies official status to