Dear user Rocklin,

you have been deleting many trails from OSM on the basis that they are “on private land” or “not authorized”. Please don’t do that; in OSM, if a trail exists but is not usable (due to being closed, private or simliar) we use the so-called “access tags” to record the fact.

Property owners do not have the right to dictate what we map about their property; we can map private trails all we want as long as we correctly state that these are private.

If you would like to discuss this rule, please bring it up on community.openstreetmap.org. Please do not perform further deletions.

I have reverted your edits for the time being.

Best regards
Frederik Ramm
OSMF Data Working Group