<div dir="ltr">On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 03:21, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br><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">
<div><br><div>Any signed route may be mapped as a route relation. <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Depends how broadly or narrowly you define "signed route."<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br><div>And sometimes signed route will be signed with paint markings on trees,<br></div><div>or by piles of rocks or by some other method rather than be a sign.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's a pretty broad definition. Which is fine by me, because it definitely</div><div> includes footpaths, bridleways, restricted byways, and BOATs in the UK.</div><div>England and Wales have specific signs for such things:</div><div><a href="https://www.simplyhike.co.uk/blogs/blog/a-guide-to-footpath-signs-in-england-and-wales">https://www.simplyhike.co.uk/blogs/blog/a-guide-to-footpath-signs-in-england-and-wales</a></div><div>Scotland and Northern Ireland also have signs for these things, but they're different</div><div>from the ones in England and Wales.</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I've encountered footpaths and bridleways that include farm service roads as</div><div class="gmail_quote">part of their route. So far, I've mapped the footpaths as the bits that aren't</div><div class="gmail_quote">service roads. That renders the functionality of the ways but doesn't</div><div class="gmail_quote">encode in any way that the service road is a public footpath. I did find</div><div class="gmail_quote">one example of somebody doing it differently: he mapped a bridleway in</div><div class="gmail_quote">its entirety, including the bit along a service road, and also mapped</div><div class="gmail_quote">the service road (which coincided with part of the bridleway). It</div><div class="gmail_quote">still rendered the service road as a service road on standard carto but</div><div class="gmail_quote">using the query tool on the bridleway showed the full extent of the</div><div class="gmail_quote">bridleway.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Using a relation seems like another way of handling the situation.</div><div class="gmail_quote">Or maybe I'm misunderstanding...</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">-- <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Paul</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>