<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 11:05, Axelos <<a href="mailto:axelos@broman.fr">axelos@broman.fr</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>[footpath/bridleway fingerposts]<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
I have already seen this type of symbols, but never added in OpenStreetMap.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There's no defined tag for them (or I can't find it). Which makes adding them to OSM</div><div>difficult.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Always on destination=*, there is the alternative relation that offers ideas<br>
(<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:destination_sign#Tags" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:destination_sign#Tags</a> and<br>
<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Destination_details#destination:symbol" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Destination_details#destination:symbol</a>).<br>
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Maybe to be inspired?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sadly, neither of them work for footpaths/bridleways. Nor for the other problem I posed, that</div><div>of fingerposts with multiple arms in different directions.</div><div><br></div><div>The destination relation isn't a standalone, but has to be part of a route (if I understand</div><div>the page correctly). The fingerposts with multiple arms I'm thinking of indicate that the</div><div>library is in one direction, the swimming pool another and the tourist information centre</div><div>another. They're not (necessarily) on a bus/cycle/hiking/walking route, they're just</div><div>telling tourists the direction to certain POIs. If you have OSM you don't need the signs</div><div>to find those POIs, but knowing the location of such a sign helps confirm your position</div><div>when GPS isn't getting a lock.</div><div><br></div><div>The icons for destination signs are interesting, but not really applicable. Because the</div><div>walking man icon or horse icon on the fingerpost isn't a destination. The hospital icon</div><div>shows "This way to the hospital." The walking man says "this is a footpath." Again, with</div><div>OSM you already know it's a footpath, but the presence of the sign confirms your position</div><div>or tells you that you should be looking for such a sign. Quite often there are two adjacent</div><div>gets or two adjacent tracks and the presence of the sign tells you which one to use.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It seems to me that it's useful to map these fingerposts but that we don't yet have a way</div><div>of doing it.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>