I noticed parts of this walking path are shown with a dashed line.
Does anyone know what this means? I know the place and sometimes during winter the path will be flooded.
Is this something we can indicate / edit?
Here is the Maps link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/dwyL3oc7ua27jLpP7
Cheers
Morten
That’s a new thing @MortenCopenhagen wonder does @MarcoDavoli have an idea? @JustJake here you go.
Thank you for raising this Morten. We’ll mention it on my meet-up tomorrow if possible. Thanks again
Cheers
@MortenCopenhagen This is an unpaved or dirt trail. Not sure how it gets designated as such since it cannot be seen from the satellite. Maybe it comes from data loaded by the City?
Thanks @JustJake
It is likely that the municipality is a geo upload partner.
But all the paths there ( also the not-dashed ) are also unpaved. Maybe the person in charge discovered this attribute late or only used the correct attribute when adding more if the path. Or maybe the attribute was created at a later date.
Thanks again for showing the ledgent.
Cheers
Morten
@JustJake is definitely correct, @MortenCopenhagen
Here below the details of a pathway I added as a geo partner on behalf of the municipality of Bolognola
Next one is one of my first addition in Google Maps with the Road Editor
Definitely NOT a new feature, @SholaIB
That kind of attributes, @MortenCopenhagen , is added by the operator that is confirming the edit, exactly like for Private road.
What Google does, during the verification process, is not only to “confirm” the edit, but also to add the correct attributes of the roads added by us. Some of the attribute is extremely important to define the correct navigation, e.g. avoiding private road
Hello @JustJake
Thank you for reaching out to help us on this. @ErmesT I said it’s new because I haven’t yet come across it on my road edits.
Cheers
@ErmesT A geo partner, eh? Is that how you got so many roads approved? 
So, @ErmesT
How did you make your path dashed? Did you add the info in the “other” field after creation, or did the operator just guess or look it up?
I tried reporting the paths in the vicinity as dirt/unpaved via the Other field.
I made maybe 10 edits in one submission using this text in the “Other” field: Unpaved/dirt path
They show up as individual edits in my email folder!
Morten
I saw this when I mapped the National Park, @ErmesT . and I’'d asked myself what kind of “attribute” could be.
In the Caprera Island almost all the track / path that I have add / edited are almost the same: small, dirt path and often covered by bushes.
For this reason I can not understand why some of them got this kind of “attribute” and others not.
Do you have an idea?
Here an example.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2378285,9.4625071,752m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2403653,9.4693618,17.38z?entry=ttu
@ErmesT reg. " is added by the operator that is confirming the edit":
Interesting since three years I am trying to convince Google without any success to mark a “street” as not suitable for normal cars, because many times new guests for an agriturismo try use it guided by Google Maps or other navigators.
Strangely, last year I did add a hiking/biking path connected to that street, which immediately showed about with dotted lines, like others in that area:
The “street” mentioned above, I marked with red lines. To make it even more complicated, the short part in the West, as well as the access to the buildings in the East are indeed paved and usable for cars. The rest in the middle are mainly agriculture paths.
Haha, @JustJake , I would love to, but no, I didn’t get any credit for them because I added them “on behalf” of the municipality. But I’ve got their gratitude and a mention in the press conference for the presentation of the trails: Bolognola senza segreti col Gps .
This is part of my social duty to restart the business in the area after the Earthquake of 2016 (that it is also the reason why I am a Local Guide).
Mapping For Good is part of my mission of being a Local Guide. On 2020 I was (virtually) at Geo For Good (the summit of Google Earth) together with @Erna_LaBeau to introduce Accessible Life. We hosted an incredible meet-up and we had the opportunity to meet Googlers an passionate mappers.
On 2021 I was officially invited at Geo For Good as a panelist for the Accessibility Panel - Adventures in Disability Equity and on the Social Inclusion Lightning Talks . One of the first thing I did when the Road Editor was available was to add the road to all the new villages built in Central Italy after the Earthquake. The post: Mapping for Good - New roads in the Earthquake area of Italy
@MortenCopenhagen , @MarcoDavoli , I only submitted the files with a description to them: https://contentpartners.maps.google.com
Regarding the trail in the Alps it was one of my first experiences with the editor, so I only flagged the appropriate selection (Biking / walking trail). But I know the the operators are adding attributes
Hi @WilfriedB
The real issue (I believe) is that due to a large amount of data submitted Google do not manage certain type of information shared by us. In this case the best thing to do would be to report the issue on the Google Maps Community, where the PEs escalate the requests directly to Google
You’ve done so many amazing projects @ErmesT . Thank you for all of this. I’m watching the Accessibility Panel now. I have never seen Google Earth Outreach before. I’ll be exploring that, too.
Maybe a short trail!
