I use: disused:highway=path/footway/etc or abandoned:highway=path/footway/etc
If it is totally gone, I still tend to leave the way with "note=There is no longer a path here, the land manager restored the area to its natural state sometime before <date>", (or whatever is appropriate) this provides some assurance that someone doesn't add it back to OSM using and old source (imagery, GPX tracks, etc). Mike On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 9:36 AM Andy Townsend <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25/09/2020 16:04, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > Hi, > > Wondering if there was a consensus on tagging an abandoned, no longer very > usable path (e.g. a path which has become overgrown or is unclear and prone > to flooding in wetter periods). Something like "path=abandoned"? > > My 2p: > > > Perhaps use "trail_visibility" through the lifecycle of the path as it > changes from "being obvious on the ground" to "not being there at all"? > > > Once it's definitely disappeared, I'd have no qualms about deleting it > altogether. Sometimes I update the tags on a path before deleting it to > something like "note=nothing on this alignment any more". > > > If it's still visible on imagery, I'd be tempted to leave that note there > (without a highway tag) to stop someone retracing it. > > > Best Regards, > > > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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