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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/07/2021 09:34, Peter Elderson
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<div>Sorry to push this issue, but I really want to know how
it helps, because besides hiking along them, I actually
maintain physical markers for routes. Doesn't the fact that
the route goes there indicate there are markers? </div>
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<p>No. There might have been markers once, but perhaps they've not
been maintained, or were fairly sparse in the first place. The
world is a big place, and the how routes are signposted varies
hugely. Something like
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/400098">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/400098</a> in sparsely
populated Western Australia has far fewer signs than for example
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4080347">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4080347</a> in England.</p>
<p>Knowing where the next signpost is certainly helps me (just as
someone walking along the route) to figure out where the next bit
goes, and to navigate around blockages.<br>
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<div>... Even if all the markers are in the route relation
(which I seriously doubt will ever happen). <br>
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<p>I wouldn't underestimate the ability of OSM contributors to do
that :)</p>
<p>Just to take a couple of examples near me,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1996318">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1996318</a> is pretty
complete. That one's sparsely signposted - it's across open
moorland, so signposts don't really make sense for a lot of it.</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/370667">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/370667</a> is also complete,
and there signpost relation membership is definitely useful
because some are missing, some refer to old versions of the route
and some are just in the wrong place (an old public footpath
fingerpost has been reused in error).<br>
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<p>Best Regards,</p>
<p>Andy</p>
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