I live in an area with lots of paths for outdoor enthusiasts. Sometimes these paths become damaged. During my mapping years I have chosen distinct strategies to promulgate such occurrences to data, when I was certain, that the damage would not be healed for months:
- highway=construction; construction=path
- destroyed|abandoned|disused:highway=path
- sac_scale=what_was_there_plus_1
- access=no
Below picture of the effect of access=no mapped half a year ago on Strava:
Note: There the maintainer of the path put up “Closed” signs, but they are in no way legally binding to the people walking there. I could have just as well upped sac_scale there, but I chose to go the access way.
So far, no complaints. But still curious, is there an OSM certified way of dealing with such things?