On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote: > As Andy says Hollow Way is an archaic term, of which the Oxford English > Dictionary contains many. > > More contemporary organisations use the term sunken lane for example > The National Trust > https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/what-are-sunken-lanes > > http://shropshirehistory.com/comms/romanroads.htm
None of the terms was familiar to me (and I'm a native speaker of American English who recognizes that the USAians and Britons are sundered by a common language). But 'sunken lane' at least made sense as having a natural meaning as a pair of common words; 'hollow way', I'd have had to look up to make sure that its technical meaning matched my understanding. Contrary to popular belief, we do have them around here on the old carriageways and turnpikes - it doesn't take a history back to Roman or medieval times to erode them. Even 120 years of weather can exact a toll. I'd be tempted to change the tagging on https://flic.kr/p/oNCZVD https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/516500341 since that's exactly what happened there. Off topic: That is still a public right-of-way used by hikers; the rangers will occasionally take a Jeep on it as far as the West Stony Creek campsite gate. The guy who owns the land on both sides thinks that because the state bought the failed homesteads farther in, the road is abandoned. He occasionally gates it, and the state tears down the gate. He sicked a dog on me once when I was signing in at the trailhead. A whack across the snout with the grip of a trekking pole made the dog lose interest in the project - particularly since the dog could see that the pole had a sharp end, too. The last time I was there, the dog wasn't, and the sign at the (open) gate was changed to read "Public easement on private land - No motor vehicles -STAY ON THE TRAIL!" so maybe The Powers That Be had a word with the guy. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
