[OSM-newbies] Adding Walking Trails

[Richard Weait]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:27 AM, James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Dave F. <davefox at madasafish.com> wrote:
>> On 11/05/2011 12:12, David Groom wrote:
>
>> AIUI, the convention is it needs to be signed on the ground to be official
>> enough to be added to OSM. A route named & published only in a walking book,
>> for example, would not qualify.
>
> I guess I need to go rip out a couple hundred km of trails that I have
> added to the OSM database because not a single one of them have a sign
> on them.
>
> Most of the walking and bicycle trails in the city don't even have
> signs on them, let alone the ones I have tracked and added in the back
> country. We have paved bicycle trails with no signage... those
> wouldn't pass the test.

No need to undo your good work, James.  The existence of a trail is
enough groundtruth to earn a place in OpenStreetMap.  While a signpost
is ideal for adding name= to a trail, even an unofficial name would
fit as loc_name=