[Outdoor-natural] Newbie Question on Splitting a Way

[Dave Swarthout]

 Hi Kevin,

Yes, splitting the way is necessary because even though it's the same
trail, each time any characteristic of that trail changes, you must split
it to apply those characteristics to only the portion for which they're
valid. The various sections are collected in a relation, in your case
perhaps a relation of type=route.

Here is a route I added a few years ago, the Iditarod Trail in Alaska. It
mostly runs through wilderness but in a few places it follows a logging
track or residential street. In this screenshot photo
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/gc37r22nckiuh7n/Iditarod%20section.JPG?dl=0>there
are three distinct sections, one on ice, one is a footway, and another on a
residential street in Takotna, Alaska. They're all part of the Iditarod
National Historic Trail route relation. These coordinates will take you
there: 62.988273, -156.0584131

(You can download the photo to your computer for a better view)

Hope this helps

Dave

On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 12:18 PM Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> Yes, splitting the way is necessary because even though it's the same
> trail, each time any characteristic of that trail changes, you must split
> it to apply those characteristics to only the portion for which they're
> valid. The various sections are collected in a relation, in your case
> perhaps a relation of type=route.
>
> Here is a route I added a few years ago, the Iditarod Trail in Alaska. It
> mostly runs through wilderness but in a few places it follows a logging
> track or residential street. In the attached screenshot there are three
> distinct sections, one on ice, one is a footway, and another on a
> residential street in Takotna, Alaska. They're all part of the Iditarod
> National Historic Trail route relation. These coordinates will take you
> there : 62.988273, -156.0584131
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 10:26 AM Kevin Wood via Outdoor-natural <
> outdoor-natural at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Editing on OPM using iD editor to map out Cross-Country ski trails. Issue
>> is that many ski trails use Forest Roads. Not sure what steps I need to
>> take to avoid superimposing. I have gotten the idea that I need to split
>> the way.
>>
>> Any possibility that you could direct me to an example with a hiking or
>> other trail.
>>
>> Please direct me to another group if the subject isn't correct for here.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Kevin
>>
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>
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> Dave Swarthout
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>


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Dave Swarthout
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Chiang Mai, Thailand
Travel Blog: http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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