[Tagging] "new" highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

[Sam Vekemans]

yes,
a sub-group to deal with trails can be created for trail=*, i'll also
look into that and see what has already been done by the other schemas
for this sub-grouping.


My aim is to have a full tagging schema report (SchemaTroll 2.01 -
White Paper) done by Nov 21st.


Cheers,
Sam

On 10/22/10, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's now almost 3 years that I'm mapping and when I entered small
> informal (not planned or built) footpaths I was using cryptic tag
> combinations like highway=footway, informal=yes, width=0.3 (or
> highway=path), surface=ground. While that is not impossible, it is
> still somehow strange. Why shouldn't we simply add another highway
> class on the lowest end? Would simplify all of our lives (at least for
> all those who sometimes leave the car when mapping) and add some
> clarity.
>
> Looking at a dictionary I found "trail" (for german "Trampelpfad"),
> and helas: there is already a tag-page:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtrail
>
> It isn't very clear though and from the picture I'd say that is
> highway=path.
>
> I am aiming at stuff like this:
> http://www.thesenselessunit.net/funnystuff/trampelpfad.jpg
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Trampelpfad_zum_Michaelberg_im_Maudacher_Bruch.jpg
> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kenkp9DHXXA/SsrR-lYGdOI/AAAAAAAAB0Q/HqUc6Nob-Ag/s320/trampelpfad1.jpg
>
> especially in urban setting (unofficial ways in parks where there
> should have been a way but nobody planned/built it and similar
> situations).
>
> We could hijack the trail page (given that trail to native speakers
> implies what I want to express) and - after getting to a conclusion
> here - put a meaningful definition there. An alternative could be
> highway=informal (IMHO; what do you think?).
>
> There are currently according to taginfo 77 ways highway=trail in our
> data, which is 0,00% of the total of 32,7 million ways tagged with
> highway. Probably most (if not all) of those ways will still be
> congruent with the refined new definition of highway=trail, but we
> could attach a FIXME to them.
>
> Or do you already have another well established tag for those informal
> paths?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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