<div dir="auto">There are busses and ferry/waterbus segments in some bicycle routes. I have not checked if they are tagged and, if so, with what role.<div dir="auto">The busses I know of are on Fernpass and Reschenpass to avoid heavy/dangerous traffic. The ferries are in the Venice lagoon, and one on the Po river.</div><div dir="auto">I suspect that there are many more.</div><div dir="auto">It may be better to make a formal proposal.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, 22:34 Yves via Tagging, <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Maybe 'transfer' is too much of a French word to be British English? I don't know.<br><br>A while ago, piste:connection was introduced with some success for various ways connecting ski pistes together (other than aerialway=*).<br>Regards, Yves<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Le 10 août 2021 21:47:51 GMT+02:00, Peter Elderson <<a href="mailto:pelderson@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">pelderson@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>I am in a discussion with French mappers of hiking routes (GR).<br></div><div>They are completing and correcting all GR's in France, and creating QA tooling and a presentation site. </div><div><br></div><div>They need a solution for sections of long trails which require a transfer. By train, by cable car, by ferry. I would like to add: a solution that works for all recreational routes.</div><div><br></div><div>This solution should enable data users to query for (routes containing) such sections; to calculate length (distance) including and excluding such sections. And in the first place, such sections should be allowed in the routes, even if the transport mode differs from the rest of the route. </div><div><br></div><div>Proposed solution</div><div>I propose a new role value. for <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Roles_for_recreational_route_relations" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Roles_for_recreational_route_relations</a></div><div>role <b>transfer</b> <span style="background-color:rgb(248,249,250);color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">A transfer section, </span><span style="background-color:rgb(248,249,250);color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">signposted or otherwise indicated</span><span style="background-color:rgb(248,249,250);color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> as a regular part of the route. </span><span style="background-color:rgb(248,249,250);color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">The traveler is transferred by a different means of transport e.g. cable car, train or boat from the end of one section to the beginning of the next.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(248,249,250);color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(248,249,250);color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">As with the other roles, this role can be applied to way members and/or to relation members. Data users can decide how to deal with sections with this role with regard to filtering, rendering, data presentation, computing length and elevation profiles, routing. </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(248,249,250);color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(248,249,250);color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Voting? I'd rather not...</span></div><div>Since it's only a niche role value, my preference would be to discuss the proposed new value here and then add it to the wiki, unless there are significant objections.Then I will bring it to the attention of relevant developers of tools, renderers and communities. </div><div><br></div><div>Peter Elderson<br></div></div>
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