<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:large">Peter makes some good points. Viewing routes at <a href="http://osm.org">osm.org</a> is not easy. The "layers" icon has some nice transport presentations but nothing for hiking.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:large">There are a 11 viewing options at <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hiking_Maps">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hiking_Maps</a> where my favorite is <a href="http://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org">hiking.waymarkedtrails.org</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:large">There are a few places where you have to "walk on roads" to maintain connectivity. For example: where a sidewalk (highway=footway,footway=sidewalk) crosses a street (highway=footway, footway=crossing) .</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:large">The Bay Circuit Trail route has many miles of "road" connecting trails and it's just assumed you'll be walking on the side of the road. When I hike the BCT I add sidewalks if possible and use them in the route relation.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:large">Thanks to Peter for pointing out the problem with the Mid State Trail. The JOSM validator reports 16 overlapping roads and 5 crossing highways. I fixed a small section at </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=42.146254%2C%20-71.937767#map=17/42.14581/-71.93682&layers=D">https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=42.146254%2C%20-71.937767#map=17/42.14581/-71.93682&layers=D</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:large">The fix was tedious, splitting the trail sections and the road sections at the corresponding nodes. And replacing the trail route sections with the road sections.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:large">Alan</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:large"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 5:25 PM Peter Cooper Jr. via Talk-us-massachusetts <<a href="mailto:talk-us-massachusetts@openstreetmap.org">talk-us-massachusetts@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">The only part I'm really familiar with is the area behind the Staples <br>
corporate offices (Staples Drive in Framingham <br>
<<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/42.2913/-71.4958" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/42.2913/-71.4958</a>>), where the <br>
trails are signed "Staples Fitness Trail" from the middle (on Staples <br>
Drive) but they're also somehow part of the Bay Circuit Trail "system" <br>
(and have the Bay Circuit Trail logo at the "trailheads" on Crossing <br>
Boulevard and Oak St. though they're small and easy to miss). A while <br>
back I updated that area somewhat and added the streams alongside much <br>
of it. I ended up leaving the "name" as it was of "Bay Circuit Trail" <br>
but adding an "alt_name" of "Staples Fitness Trail" for the portion that <br>
was gravel, but I'm not sure that that's the most correct approach, or <br>
maybe it should be the other way around?<br>
<br>
The concept of these trail "networks", with the idea of "you can walk on <br>
car-roads to get from one woods-trail to another", doesn't seem <br>
consistently represented, at least for the two data points I know of: <br>
This Bay Circuit Trail uses the hiking route relation on both trails <br>
through woods as well as on "regular" roads so on the default rendering <br>
there's no easy way to see the trail as a whole (since only the relation <br>
has the whole picture), whereas the Midstate Trail seems to also have <br>
its highway=path go over the same ways as the regular roads for the <br>
places where there's no route through the woods. So, the Midstate Trail <br>
(at least through near where I live) has these double-labelled areas <br>
where a road both has its normal name as well as the name of the "trail" <br>
that goes over it. (See <br>
<<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/42.1374/-71.9213" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/42.1374/-71.9213</a>> for what I <br>
mean.) My understanding is that this two ways over the same place is <br>
"wrong" (or at least iD complains about it), but I'm hesitant to change <br>
it unless the only-a-relation approach is definitely better (and I'm <br>
unlikely to have time to actually work on "fixing" anything regardless).<br>
<br>
And I know the "what does the default render show" isn't the best <br>
approach for "what should the database have", but it makes me think that <br>
something somewhere should do a better job of showing these larger trail <br>
networks and how they interconnect, if not on OSM's default render <br>
proper then somewhere else. The generally-useful <br>
<a href="https://www.mass-trails.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mass-trails.org/</a> site takes a very property-by-property view <br>
of "hiking areas", with these trails like Bay Circuit Trail and Midstate <br>
Trail that go "between" hiking areas being much harder to find there.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Peter<br>
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