[OSM-newbies] How to map a trail (footway) system with one name

[Oliver Lewis]

The best way to do this is to create a relation for the whole system and add
the individual ways to the relation. This page explains the route relations
concept:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relation:route

To create one in Potlatch, select one of the ways, then click on the button
with a chain link on the right ("add to a relation").  Create a new route
relation with the name "Kildaire Farms Trails".  When you click on the next
way, repeat the process but choose the relation you have created from the
list.

Exactly how these relations should be rendered is work in progress.

Oliver



On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Victor Snesarev <victor.snesarev at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am mapping a trail system where trails and trail branches have no
> individual names, but the whole trail system is known as Kildaire Farms
> Trails. As you can see here
> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.75712&lon=-78.79327&zoom=17&layers=0B0FT>using
> the Osmarender data, I mapped the main trail with a single way running East
> to West and then turning sharply South. Then I added a short way between the
> main trail's corner and Pebble Creek Rd. I added the same attributes to the
> short way as to the main trail. Is that the right way of mapping this sort
> of feature?
>
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.75712&lon=-78.79327&zoom=17&layers=0B0FT
>
> Thanks,
> Victor
>
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