Hi, it seems you overwrote a lot of roads I tagged as surface=compacted, which is a specific type of unpaved road, with surface=unpaved, which is the generic catch-all tag for unpaved roads (see OSM wiki)? Is this a mistake or have these roads really changed from compacted to something else?

Hi Mashin, sounds good. Yeah I've been working off the Strava heatmap a fair bit, and also off single activities I see on my Strava feed (including in the case of that particular way you linked). But yes, my MO until now has been to create existing trails regardless and let others come in with access tags if appropriate...including myself, because I would like to ground-truth many of these trails at some point, and having all the known trails on the map/routers regardless of status certainly helps with doing that in the smallest amount of time. I've been tempted to use access=unknown but I assume routers/tiles don't treat those any differently. Anyway, thanks for the note -- I'll refrain from adding trails that I don't know are legal!

Hey just a heads up, footway=crossing shouldn't be used on nodes. You put it on a few nodes where highway=crossing should have been used instead. I always forget which ones go where myself and have to look it up...

Hi Chris, do you think this segment of Power Cut Road would be better tagged as access:permissive? I don't know what the official stance is, but the strava heatmap suggests it's pretty well travelled. There's a blue-blazed trail that starts at the southern tip of it and runs parallel to it, it's a little overgrown right now. But the existence of that trail and it ending ~half-way up Power Cut Road seems to suggest that access is at least permissive. Let me know what you think.

Interesting, what does -1 mean?