<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 22:49, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<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><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>May 21, 2020, 14:17 by <a href="mailto:kevin.b.kenny@gmail.com" target="_blank">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?</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.</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.</div><div><br></div><div>Though there was another thread recently about what constituents a route vs just a named path..</div></div></div>