Dear Erika Challenor,

our “organised editing” rules say that if you work on OSM on behalf of others or as part of an organisation, you must document your endeavour properly. See: https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines

Furthermore, trails that exist in reality but are for some reason “unauthorized” or unwanted by the land owner do not get deleted from OSM, instead we have specific tags to mark them (see: osm.wiki/Why_can%27t_I_delete_this_trail%3F).

You have deleted many trails from OSM claiming they were “erroneous” and that you were acting on “client’s request”, but you did not give any sources for why something was erroneous, nor did you replace the deleted data with better data. You didn’t name the client either.

This violates our rules and I have therefore re-instated your most recent trail deletions.

If you want to delete trails from OSM on behalf of a client, you need to properly discuss this with the community beforehand and show evidence that the trails do indeed not exist (as opposed to being just a nuisance to a land owner).

Best regards
Frederik Ramm
OSMF Data Working Group