<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>In Groton, We have been using the following tags. </div><div><br></div><div>name - only if the trail has an actual name</div><div>operator - if the trail is being officially maintained by somebody, say mass Audubon or the "Groton Trails Committee", etc ...</div><div>symbol - if the trail is blazed, the name of the blaze. </div><div>access - public or private. </div><div><br></div><div>We don't use it, because we don't show it on our maps, but you could also use the colour tag and the osmc:symbol tags.</div><div><br></div><div>Jason</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Alan & Ruth Bragg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.ruth.bragg@gmail.com" target="_blank">alan.ruth.bragg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline">Joe Holmes recently contacted me with some interesting thoughts on trail marking. </div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline">Joe "</div>About 20 days ago you worked on trails in the new area just south of<br>
Annurnsac Conservation Land. You are being inconsistent in how you are<br>
marking the blaze colors. Sometimes just "Red", sometimes "blue blazed",<br>
sometimes "Main Trail (yellow blazes)". I suggest that you leave off the<br>
word "blazed" or "blazes".<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline">"</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline">I agree and will remove "blaze, blazed, blazes" I think the type of trail and blaze color needs to be specified.</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">name=Main Trail (yellow) works for me.</div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline">Concord yellow=main, red=secondary, blue=connecting</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline">Bedford: blue=main, orange=secondary, yellow=access</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline"></div><br>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline">Joe "</div>What we do in Acton is for a unnamed, but blazed trail (most of them) we<br>
just name it the color of the blazes. Our named trails have the name and<br>
the color. Our display software picks up on the color in the name, and<br>
draws it in that color, and suppresses the color in the name. For<br>
unblazed trails, we give no name.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline">"</div><br>
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You also have a lot of trails named "social trail". If by this you mean<br>
a trail on private land with no official public access, I suggest you<br>
tag it in OSM as access=private. And don't name it, unless it is<br>
actually a trail called "social trail". This is what we do. And our<br>
display software suppresses showing any private trails.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline">"</div><br><br><span class="m_-5127094651781114048gmail-m_-3823419664642027284HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline">I've always wondered how to tag a trial that is not "official". When I'm mapping in the field, I explore every right turn to it's end. </div></font></span><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(136,136,136)">This often leads me off formal public trails.</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline">I will also tag a trail that clearly goes onto private land like someone's back yard with access=private however if the trail is on any land in the Mass GIS open space layer I would not.</div></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><br></div></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">I started using "social trail" when a more experienced mapper suggested it to me. There was a proposal for "<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Social_path" target="_blank">social_path</a>" It was withdrawn in favor of <code style="font-family:monospace,Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);border-radius:2px;padding:1px 4px;font-size:14px"><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpath" title="Tag:highway=path" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none" target="_blank">highway=path</a></code><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> plus </span><code style="font-family:monospace,Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);border-radius:2px;padding:1px 4px;font-size:14px"><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:access%3Dno" title="Tag:access=no" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none" target="_blank">access=no</a></code><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><wbr> and </span><code style="font-family:monospace,Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);border-radius:2px;padding:1px 4px;font-size:14px"><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:informal" title="Key:informal" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none" target="_blank">informal</a>=yes</code></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="m_-5127094651781114048gmail-m_-3823419664642027284HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="m_-5127094651781114048gmail-m_-3823419664642027284HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="m_-5127094651781114048gmail-m_-3823419664642027284HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><br></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="m_-5127094651781114048gmail-m_-3823419664642027284HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><br></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="m_-5127094651781114048gmail-m_-3823419664642027284HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline"><br></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="m_-5127094651781114048gmail-m_-3823419664642027284HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline">How should I tag the trail when:</div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="m_-5127094651781114048gmail-m_-3823419664642027284HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline">It's not posted as "No Trespassing"</div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="m_-5127094651781114048gmail-m_-3823419664642027284HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline">It's posted "No Hunting"</div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="m_-5127094651781114048gmail-m_-3823419664642027284HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline">It's used by mountain bikers as a jump or stunt trail.</div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="m_-5127094651781114048gmail-m_-3823419664642027284HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline">It's on public land but not on the town trial map.</div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="m_-5127094651781114048gmail-m_-3823419664642027284HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;display:inline"> </div><br>
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