Hi all, first time post here (hope I'm doing everything right.) There's an interesting article at Gizmodo about erasing the Hollywood sign from Google Maps, Bing Maps, Apple Maps etc -- people who live on roads nearby were complaining about hikers and tourists, and they got the LA City Council, Google and a local website to change the walking directions so no one goes through their neighborhood anymore, instead pointing them to other viewpoints miles away.
To me it's an interesting example of why OSM is important, since anyone can edit and add the data, not what the LA City Council or Google or some NIMBYs think is important: http://gizmodo.com/why-people-keep-trying-to-erase-the-hollywood-sign-from-1658084644 The trails mentioned in the article seem to be present in OSM, although with the gates mentioned: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3202722073#map=16/34.1339/-118.3214 Andrew -- 600,000 DC residents don't have a vote in Congress -- http://www.dcvote.org/ <http://www.dcvote.org/about/index.cfm>
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