<div dir="ltr">It may not be "officially recognized" but route=snowmobile is used some [0], and IMHO makes a lot more sense than route=road!<br><br>[0] <a href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/route=snowmobile">http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/route=snowmobile</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Kevin Kenny <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin.b.kenny+osm@gmail.com" target="_blank">kevin.b.kenny+osm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I thought sure that I had raised this question before, but a quick troll through the archives doesn't seem to show it.<div><br></div><div>New York State has an extensive network of designated snowmobile routes, intended to be long-distance continuous paths. In some cases, they follow highways, or logging roads on state land. In other cases, the state offers grants to private landowners to maintain the route, funded out of snowmobile registration fees. (At least that's my understanding of how the system works. I'm not a snowmobilist). Except where the route is groomed alongside a highway (or sometimes on the highway - not all our roads are open to motor vehicles in winter), other motor vehicles are ordinarily forbidden.</div><div><br></div><div>These routes are marked with a highway shield, with reassurance markers at intervals. There are even two tiers of routes: 'corridor' and 'secondary'. Both are long-distance routes, so they are not appropriate for the name=* field on a track or path. (Example: Haul Road No. 1 in the Dutch Settlement State Forest is blazed for both the New York Long Path (route=hiking) and Snowmobile Corridor Route 7B. A highway shield on a snowmobile route looks like <a href="https://flic.kr/p/nPeMwe" target="_blank">https://flic.kr/p/nPeMwe</a>.<wbr> </div><div><br></div><div>We don't (yet?) have a 'route=snowmobile' officially recognized. What I used recently when a hike (gathering map data for something else) took me for a while on a snowmobile corridor was 'route=road network=US:NY:snowmobile:<wbr>corridor ref=7B'. (If it had been a secondary route, it would of course have been US:NY:snowmobile:secondary.) I feel a little uncomfortable about route=road, which seems to be tailored for motor vehicles, but the tagging would be in all ways the same - type, network, route, ref are all there, and even most of the roles are possible (there are link trails, for instance, providing access to nearby highways, or places where a route splits into a one-way pair). </div><div><br></div><div>Does this sound plausible?</div></div>
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