[OSM-newbies] Adding Walking Trails

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Fairhurst" <richard at systemed.net>
To: <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Adding Walking Trails


>
> James Ewen wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Could I point out there is a little linguistic confusion here? :)
>
> For those of us on this side of the pond, the word "trail" usually refers 
> to
> a waymarked recreational walking route following existing paths and roads.
> For example, in the UK, we have a whole series of "National Trails" such 
> as
> the Pennine Way and the Thames Path.
>
> For people on the side of the pond with hamburgers and maple syrup, 
> however,
> a "trail" just means a path.
>
> If you read the thread in the knowledge that Clifford, James, and Richard 
> W
> are from the hamburger/maple syrup side of the pond, and David and Dave
> aren't, then it magically makes sense. David and Dave are saying "this
> doesn't get special recreational-walking-route status unless it has
> signposts". James and Richard W are saying "this is just a path". As
> Clifford is from hamburgerland, the "just a path" interpretation is 
> probably
> the more relevant one.
>

Whilst you may be correct, in his original post Clifford referred to a named 
trail the " Burke Gillman trail" , which already exists in OSM, and the fact 
that the new trail he wished to add used part of this existing trail, which 
is why I took it to mean he was referring to something "more than just a 
path".

In any case, I hope Clifford now has enough viewpoints to assist him in 
whether this new "trail" should be added to OSM or not.

David



> cheers
> Richard
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