[Tagging] Merging tagging scheme on wiki pages of Hiking, route=hiking, route=foot and Walking routes

[Warin]

On 15/08/19 22:58, Andy Townsend wrote:
> On 15/08/2019 10:56, Peter Elderson wrote:
>> ... So the lowest level always contains only ways, the higher level 
>> contains only relations.
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> Please don't make things more complicated than they need to be. Most 
> hiking routes are just a single relation and are best left that way.

Agreed for simple routes of, say, < 300 members.
Where the route has well over 300 members it becomes easier to maintain 
it if it is split up into smaller segments and then has a higher level 
relation to combine them.
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>> The ways in the main relation should form one continuous sorted 
>> (sortable) route,
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> No.  Don't assume that route ways are sorted in OSM as they usually 
> aren't.
I have been sorting 'local' ones near me so they are processed correctly 
by Way Marked Trails.
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>> which data users can extract or link to for navigation or planner 
>> software.
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> Pretty much irrelevant.  As long as the data's there, software can 
> figure it out.
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>> Note that rendering routes is not that critical,
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> This depends entirely on the use case.  As an example, it is for me.

And Way Market Trails and probably others.