Thank you for providing feedback on some of the edits made by National Trust staff as part of our organised editing activity, on the representation of paths. We'd like to apologise that it has taken some time to provide a response. We are always open to constructive feedback that helps us to add value to OSM for the benefit of all.
The aim of the National Trust's organised editing activity is to capture and accurately tag the access rights of all paths on or near National Trust managed land. In doing so, we hope to use it as the basis for enhancing access and the management of paths, to improve visitor experience. We are trying to be consistent in how ways are tagged / represented in OpenStreetMap. A standard schema and internally developed guidance are being utilised to help map commonly occurring scenarios. This schema can be found on the OSM Wiki page (link). We currently have 5 staff members conducting remote mapping sessions with local rangers to gain their on-the-ground insight. We believe that working with the on-the-ground staff provides our best available source of local knowledge, but we acknowledge there may be situations where there are differing opinions on path representation. The Trust invite feedback from OSM mappers, but it may take some time to review each situation. In the time available, we are focusing on the existence of the path (ie. location and connectivity) and the legal right (ie. access tags). In the future, we hope to look at other attributes to represent the characteristics of the path. Following the initial data capture, we plan to hand over OSM updates to the ranger teams; we are currently refining the guidance material to support this. Feedback from the OSM community to help ensure we are providing appropriate guidance is welcome. We tend to use a standard changeset comment as it would be very difficult to capture details of every change. However, since receiving feedback on the Talk-GB mailing list, we have amended our standard comment to be more representative of the type of changes that have been made on individual properties. As part of the process, we have a monitoring tool that looks at the weekly changes to paths in OSM on land managed by the National Trust. This could be made publicly available as an Esri Open Data WMS if it would provide further transparency. We accept in the time that we have, occasional errors will be made. After our first round of data capture, we have allocated time to analyse and assure the quality of changes by our team. Overall, we expect that the changes will improve the representation of paths on OSM, but we are very keen to improve our process by utilising the wealth of knowledge and experience in the OSM community. National Trust Paths & Trails Team. [cid:image001.png@01D960B3.49CEC380] GIS Data Officer (Paths) National Trust Email: olivia.rag...@nationaltrust.org.uk<mailto:olivia.rag...@nationaltrust.org.uk> nationaltrust.org.uk<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationaltrust.org.uk%2F&data=04%7C01%7Colivia.ragone%40nationaltrust.org.uk%7C0a076322c8bb4f7d5b8f08da11662443%7C0fba79b96423460d88eff9c3d4ca2e9f%7C0%7C0%7C637841427628059257%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=p6ZqPWlz7SD60%2BXfZu30bqzC8kKl%2FebG%2FeH5LKWfMwY%3D&reserved=0> [cid:image002.jpg@01D960B3.49CEC380] -- The National Trust is a registered charity no. 205846. Our registered office is Heelis, Kemble Drive, Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 2NA. The views expressed in this email are personal and may not necessarily reflect those of the National Trust unless explicitly stated otherwise. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error, please notify me immediately. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you should not copy it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any other person. Senders and recipients of email should be aware that, under the Data Protection Act 2018, the contents may have to be disclosed. The National Trust has scanned this email for security issues. However the National Trust cannot accept liability for any form of malware that may be in this email and we recommend that you check all emails with an appropriate security tool.
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