[Tagging] Walking route on a beach
Warin
61sundowner at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 22:15:08 UTC 2018
On 20/12/18 09:09, Peter Elderson wrote:
> If you want beaches to route in general, you need to draw a path along
> the entire length of the beach, with connecting paths to all accessing
> paths and roads. That has not been done in Nederland, which has one
> very long and wide sandy beach along its entire west coast.
>
> For the hiking routes using sections of the beach paths have been
> drawn over the sand (surface=sand), between the access points
> involved. This allows a continuous route relation which renders and is
> clickable on waymarkedtrails/hiking.
>
> These paths are routable of course, but since it's far from complete
> the beach as a whole is not.
>
> Other surfaces have paths drawn on them for the same reason:
> individual pedestrian areas, grass areas, wood areas, village_greens.
> In this case, they are usually present for routability. Waterways
> along or crossing natural=water areas are the same thing, in this respect.
Good point on waterways!
>
> Op wo 19 dec. 2018 om 22:31 schreef Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com
> <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>>:
>
> 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
> <https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/#route?id=2712082&map=16%21-43.5369%21146.5842>
>
>
> 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
> <https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/#route?id=4869590&map=18%21-29.5793%21153.3358>
>
> 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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