[Tagging] route=foot

[Philip Barnes]

On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 14:48 +1100, Steve Bennett wrote:
> Huh. And here in Australia (well, at least amongst the people I know)
> the difference between a "hike" and any other form of walking is
> strictly whether it's more than one day. A daywalk is, well, a day or
> less, and a hike is two or more days. 

That does seem a reasonable distinction to me. 

Phil (trigpoint)
> 
> 
> But that doesn't cause me any concerns using "route=hiking".
> 
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk>
> wrote:
>         On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 13:06 +0100, Marc Gemis wrote:
>         > In Belgium and The Netherlands we have tagged all the
>         regional walking
>         > networks as foot. With this system of walking networks it is
>         possible
>         > to plan walks as short as 2-3 km and and long as a few
>         hundred
>         > kilometers. For me the short walks are no hikes, but that
>         might be the
>         > wrong interpretation.
>         >
>         >
>         > We had some discussion about this (foot vs hiking) a few
>         years ago. We
>         > decided to stay with foot because that was used in The
>         Netherlands and
>         > Germany. And because some of those networks cross the
>         border, it did
>         > look appropriate to change it only in Belgium.
>         >
>         
>         In UK English, the language of OSM, hike has extreme
>         connotations.
>         Hiking implies a route over extreme ground and a forced high
>         pace. If I
>         was to describe one of my ramblers walks as 'a hike' I would
>         not get
>         many takers.
>         
>         US English uses the term hike to describe a walk in the
>         countryside,
>         which is the usage I suspect Fly is using.
>         
>         Having done a Overpass Turbo query on route=foot locally, it
>         returns the
>         Shropshire Way and Severn Way. I would not use the term hike
>         to describe
>         either, route=foot is absolutely appropriate.
>         
>         Phil (trigpoint)
>         
>         
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