[Tagging] tag for portages?
Warin
61sundowner at gmail.com
Sun Feb 22 04:48:57 UTC 2015
On 22/02/2015 2:21 PM, Dave Swarthout wrote:
> Tagging the relation containing the parts of the route is not the issue.
>
> I am referring to the "ways" that represent the actual track a canoe
> would take to traverse a lake. It is a type of path but it is on
> water, sort of like a ferry route. For example, the most direct route
> across a lake might not be the best. You might want to go around an
> island's leeward side rather than to windward. Drawing a line or way
> across the lake and around the island to show this path is easy. But
> how then do you tag it? It's not a highway and it's not a ferry track.
> What exactly is it?
If you used the same kind of scheme ferries use, then renders will
already have some idea of what to do with it..
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ferry
thus;
canoe=trunk
canoe=unclassified
etc.
but it will need a wiki page .. and RFC RFV here if you like too.
For me .. what is windward today would be leeward tomorrow.
>
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com
> <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 22/02/2015 1:37 PM, Dave Swarthout wrote:
>> Thanks for bringing this up. Canoe routes and their connectors is
>> a topic that needs work.
>>
>> In the present case and to answer your question, I would prefer
>> portage=*
>>
>> This would leave open multiple possibilities for values, yes/no,
>> canoe. kayak, etc., that might more fully describe the
>> portage.The other two are too limited or specialized, IMO.
>
> Yep, the broader the key the better .. you never know what things
> will crop up in the future.
>
>>
>> Another issue regarding canoe routes which needs to be addressed
>> at some point in the future is that there is, to my knowledge, no
>> way to tag the waterway portions of a canoe trail or route.
>
> I'd think that canoe routes should be done similar to bicycle
> routes... maybe mountain bike as they have some system for the
> difficulty of the route..
>
> There should be an OSM wiki page on it.
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Brad Neuhauser
>> <brad.neuhauser at gmail.com <mailto:brad.neuhauser at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I'd like to add some tags for canoe portages
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage) in wilderness areas.
>> These would be trails tagged highway=path plus some tag to
>> designate that they're used for portaging between lakes. I
>> have found three different tags that are currently used to
>> tag portages (there may be others?), and am wondering if
>> anyone has recommendations about what would be best.
>>
>> 1) portage=* (223 objects)
>> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/portage
>> 2) whitewater=portage_way (227 objects)
>> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/whitewater=portage_way
>> 3) canoe=portage (67 object)
>> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/canoe=portage
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Brad
>>
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