[Tagging] tag for portages?

[Warin]

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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