Hi,
On 12/15/25 09:45, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote:
Documents held by the authorities listing the routes is 'ground truth'.
No.
It makes the map shit if you want to follow a path that is on the map
only to find the path dug up and blocked by the land owner. The land
owner may have done something illegal, but a path that is gone is gone.
If someone illegally tears down a building, we'll still remove it from
OSM - anything else would be "poor mapping".
A lack of physical evidence doesn't negate its legal standing.
That is correct, but we do not map legal standing, we map whether
there's a path there or not.
It's similar for the majority of boundaries. You don't see dashed yellow
lines painted across fields denoting county boundaries.
That is correct. We are making a huge exception for boundaries but that
doesn't mean the principle of on-the-ground verification is dead.
Bye
Frederik
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