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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>May 21, 2020, 16:00 by andrew.harvey4@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><br></div><div class=""><div class="" dir="ltr">On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 22:49, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class=""><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>May 21, 2020, 14:17 by <a target="_blank" href="mailto:kevin.b.kenny@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">kevin.b.kenny@gmail.com</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div>It's still tricky. Around here, few trails are actually signposted;<br></div><div>some don't have a sign anywhere! They're marked with paint blazes in<br></div><div>the woods, guideposts in the fields, and cairns above the tree line.<br></div></blockquote><div>Not a native speaker, but I thought that paint blazes,<br></div><div>guideposts, cairns, signs, surface markings, special traffic signs,<br></div><div>information boards, markings by cutting on trees, ribbons,<br></div><div>wooden poles etc all may be used to signpost a trail.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Is "signposted" referring to only some specific methods of marking<br></div><div>a trail?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To me all those things tell me that someone else uses this track for walking and I'm not too lost and reassures that I'm not just bush bashing or following an animal trail.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Critically those things say there is a trail here, but don't say where the trail goes as part of a route, so in that case without knowing the exact route, I don't see how it can be marked out as a recreational route.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>In Poland there is a standard method for hiking at least some types of recreational routes.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For example<br></div><div><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szlak_turystyczny#/media/Plik:CzerwonySzlakTurystyczny.jpg">https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szlak_turystyczny#/media/Plik:CzerwonySzlakTurystyczny.jpg</a><br></div><div>is certainly marking hiking walking route (red bar within white bars means that it is<br></div><div>a red hiking trail).<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szlak_turystyczny#/media/Plik:Tourist_trails_pl01.jpg">https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szlak_turystyczny#/media/Plik:Tourist_trails_pl01.jpg</a><br></div><div>is marking (from top) skiing route, red horse trail (within orange bars), and three hiking<br></div><div>walking routes (within white bars) - blue route, yellow route and black route.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Additional information boards, signs, guideposts, cairns, signs, wooden poles etc<br></div><div>may be present but such markings as on photos <br></div><div>are completely sufficient to mark it as a recreational route.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div class=""><div>Critically those things say there is a trail here, but don't say where the trail goes as part of a route, so in that case without knowing the exact route, I don't see how it can be marked out as a recreational route.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Except rare cases of imports you need to anyway travel entire route to map it in OSM.<br></div> </body>
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