[OSM-newbies] howto tag a hiking trail crossroad

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On 5 May 2011 13:01, Claudius Henrichs <claudius.h at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 05.05.11 14:41, schrieb Alexandros Papadopoulos:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I recently did some hiking and recorded ways like this:
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/AlexandrosPapadopoulos/traces/1003235
>>
>> During such walks I would mark the trail intersections (or
>> crossroads), where signs pointing to different trails could be found.
>> As this is a useful map feature, I wonder how it should be tagged?
>
> Surely you could map the location of signposts/guideposts. It's valuable
> information during hiking especially for orientation:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Guidepost

Looks good, adding

tourism=information
information=guidepost

to the waypoints.

Thanks!

Alex