[Tagging] trail blaze vs route markers

[Warin]

On 6/8/2016 7:30 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> sent from a phone
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> Il giorno 08 giu 2016, alle ore 10:52, Philip Barnes 
> <phil at trigpoint.me.uk <mailto:phil at trigpoint.me.uk>> ha scritto:
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>> Please can you explain what trail blaze means?
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> this is what the dictionary says:
> http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/blaze?q=trail+blaze#blaze-2__8
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> "A mark made on a tree by cutting the bark 
> <http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/bark#bark__2> so 
> as to mark a route."

This is the true definition. These days it would be little used owing to 
the attitude of damaging the tree.
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> looking at the images I had come to the impression that it was used 
> also for painted markings and small plates,

This is misconstruing, making black = white. Not uncommon with English 
(or OSM)!

> also the examples they give seem to indicate that cutting the bark of 
> a tree is not the only way to do it:
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>   * In this game, a runner or group of runners blazed a trail and
>     marked it by leaving paper markers, or anything else suitable,
>     along the route.
>   * A hare is be given a short head start to blaze a trail, marking
>     his devious way with shreds of paper, soon to be pursued by a
>     shouting pack of harriers.
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Here there is confusion of
a thing ; a trail blaze : a mark on a tree
an activity ; blazing a trail : the first marking out of a route.

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> /these are for the word blaze, this is trail:/
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> 3A beaten path through the countryside:/country parks with nature 
> trails//easy waymarked trails for the casual walker/
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> 3.1A route followed for a particular purpose:/the hotel is well off 
> the tourist trail/
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> /cheers,/
> /Martin /
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For me:
  A trail blaze is a particular kind of route marker. I would use route 
marker ... we don't distinguish between different kinds of route markers?
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