[Tagging] Walking route on a beach

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 21:30:11 UTC 2018


Hi,


There are a few walking routes that incorporatesections of beach walking.

These sections have no 'infrastructure' - they are not formed or 
unformed paths, they are just walking along the beach.


The choice of how to map them? As I see it there are two;


A) Create a Path - tagged as a path e.g.Way: 219753403

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/219753403#map=16/-43.5372/146.5824

This renders and is usable by routing software and appears on

https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/#route?id=2712082&map=16!-43.5369!146.5842


B) Create a way without any physical tags e.g Way: 656134075

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/656134075#map=18/-29.57874/153.33473

This does not render on maps but does appear on

https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/#route?id=4869590&map=18!-29.5793!153.3358

This may not be rotatable with some software as it has no physical 
presence.



My preference is for B as that does not imply a 'path' but it does get 
some indication of the continuous route.


Any thoughts?






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