How not to take a supporting photo

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I got a nomination for review that explained what an important trail this was. Neither photo showed any trail. And supporting photo which showed more of the area shows just how important (which I read as well used) the trail is..

that is a lot of bramble no one is walking through!!!

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(PS there is a trail here)

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Usually these nomination requests are a attempt to get somebody a housespot. At least they seem to me.

Defenitely ineligible might be fake (has been proved not fake)

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I would not regard this as fake based on this photo.
As the original poster explained there is a trail there. There appears to be a stile in the photo and a post which I take to be the trail marker.
This area has several Public footpaths (PROW) solid red lines on the photo and lots of other paths and trails dashed red line.

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So this is a valid marker.
The wysis way exists and crosses this country park
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Whether the location of the pin matched I don’t know.
Would a better supporting photo have helped? I think the answer is yes. Getting angle that shows the details of the marker relative to the trail/path can be tricky.
I have had to clear undergrowth out of the way or wait for winter. Not all country parks are good at keeping growth down. It’s also hard to tell from this angle if there is an unblocked path or not as they have let the brambles dominate - which is why getting a good angle is important and if there is an issue you address it rather than ignore it.

It’s a good example of how a good supporting picture can help.

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good point. Thanks for correcting me. Will adjust my post a bit

The particular photo’s taken just didn’t help the submitter prove anything, and no link.

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Yes.
There is a lot of learning that can be done here, about how to utilise the supplementary photo and text to boost your nomination and make life easy for the reviewer by having all the points to covered.

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For a lot of named trails, you can deeplink to the location in OpenStreetMap, e.g. Relation: ‪Wysis Way‬ (‪65891‬) | OpenStreetMap

That’s an enormous help in verifying that the trail exists IMO, it’s usually then quite easy to match OSM with Google Maps.

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