Could admin transfer this to Talk-GB please.
DaveF
On 27/03/2023 13:51, Ragone, Olivia via talk wrote:
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.
*GIS Data Officer (Paths) *
*National Trust*
*Email:*olivia.rag...@nationaltrust.org.uk
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