[Tagging] Australian Solar Challenge Race

Tijmen Stam mailinglists at iivq.net
Fri May 19 13:21:33 UTC 2017


On 19-05-17 13:04, Warin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is a
> relationhttp://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7107501#map=5/-24.173/134.723
> for the World Solar Challenge that runs from Darwin to Adelaide.
>
> Presently tagged with;
>
> route=raceway
>
> highway=raceway
>
> This is run on public highways with normal traffic, so it is not a
> closed raceway.
>
> There are similar events around the world.
>
> I would think that highway=raceway should be deleted, could be confusing
> for renders.
>
> And the route= could be changed to something like route=solar_challenge
> or is there a more universal term?
>
> Wikipedia link -
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:World%20Solar%20Challenge?uselang=en
>
>
> (I would like to see the other events encouraged to use OSM, anyone who
> says this is not for OSM is simply discouraging use of OSM.)

I think we should NOT tag these kinds of one-off routes, with no visible 
trace on the ground.

The WSC could easily implement their own rendering of OSM with their 
route as GPS track (GPX) on top of that.

Tijmen



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