<div dir="ltr">If there is nothing to be found on the road, I think the route is not for OSM. <div>If the route is "permanently" waymarked, even poorly waymarked but you can see it on the road, it's ok. If a permanent and known route consists of differently waymarked routes it uses those waymarks, so it's still waymarked and can be recorded in OSM. I stress permanent and known, because I want to exclude instant routes made by combining pieces of different routes or made out of node network sections.</div><div>E-routes (European international routes for cycling and hiking) are examples. They tend to use national/regional known trails; they have there own waymarks but these are sparsely distributed and not intended to guide you through every turn. </div><div>In less dense and less OSM-developed countries I would even map it if there were say centrally placed plaques/boards/steles in a chain of towns and cities, signifying that this is the .... trail. E.g. a st Jacob's pilgrim camino from church to church, leaving the way in between to be determined by pilgrim logic. I would choose a sort of routing profile: foot, preferably unpaved, no sightseeing deviations, PT-stops are a plus so might weigh up to a deviation.</div><div><div><br></div><div>Bt maybe that's stretching it too much.</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Vr gr Peter Elderson</div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op vr 16 aug. 2019 om 21:17 schreef Andy Townsend <<a href="mailto:ajt1047@gmail.com">ajt1047@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail-m_-5242797072876476565moz-cite-prefix">On 16/08/2019 20:00, Paul Allen wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 at 19:43, s8evq <<a href="mailto:s8evq@runbox.com" target="_blank">s8evq@runbox.com</a>>
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[1] [make it more clear that the walking route has to be
signed in order to map it. As it is stated now, you could
read it that a named hiking route is sufficient to be
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<div>Does it have to be signposted as a walking route? </div>
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<p>I've tended to use that as a criterion for inclusion, though
there are some exceptions already in OSM (Wainright's Coast to
Coast is in, for example)</p>
<p>Of course, signposted doesn't always mean "signposted very well"
:)</p>
<p>Best Regards,</p>
<p>Andy<br>
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