[OSM-newbies] howto tag a hiking trail crossroad

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexandros Papadopoulos" <alexandros.papadopoulos at gmail.com>
To: <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] howto tag a hiking trail crossroad


>
> 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
>


Alex

I think that information=guidepost is all that is needed, adding 
tourism=information is, in my opinion, a mistake.

David