Dear Chrissooo,

It's more than a month ago that you received the comments of these two users about the non-ideal deletion of tracks inside the Dandenong Ranges National Park, paths that are forbidden and out of limits to visitors.

While we all understand clearly the reasons behind these deletions, user aharvey has also told you that, instead of deleting tracks that do exist on the ground, we have a rich tagging system that allows us to keep those tracks information in the OSM database while having the apps not to show them for visitors.

Instead of following those local Australian community tagging conventions, you have continued to delete tracks until these last days. Just few days ago we have received a complaint from yet another user telling you are deleting tracks from the database.

I kindly invite you to engage in a discussion with the involved users, so that all together we can find the best solution to this matter, that is not a serious nor difficult one to solve.

Best regards,

Rafael Avila Coya, on behalf of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, Data Working Group.

[Ticket#2023102110000175 — Issue #27884]