[Tagging] Roles of route members (was: Merging tagging scheme on wiki pages of Hiking, ...)

[Peter Elderson]

Two routes, currently mapped together in one relation, but also containing subrelations, and not in the right order, and the total of that is part of a higher relation which also has variants. You can’t blame the route designers, you simply have to accommodate the real life variations. For rendering, it’s ok like it is. For routing, not at all. Cycling planners are slightly better than hiking planners, but I would like to see one make a plausible navigation route out of the E2 Yorkshire relation as it is now.

And yes, that’s a challenge.

Fr Gr Peter Elderson

> Op 17 aug. 2019 om 11:20 heeft Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
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>> On 17/08/2019 07:28, Peter Elderson wrote:
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>> Gpx gaps in some software do show up as straight lines. If it's just a missing piece and the rest is in order, no problem. In the case of the E2 in Yorkshire, lots of straight lines. Feed that to a navigation device and it will have you start in Muston, take you around and across the entire region multiple times, and end up near Barnetby Ie Wold. You wil actually have followed the E2 as well, I'll give you that!
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> "Following in the E2 in Yorkshire" would be an odd thing to do as there are two parallel legs of it (see https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/#?map=8!54.1195!-1.3988 ). From the Humber bridge one side follows the Wolds Way / Cleveland Way etc. to just west of Darlington, and on the other side of the county it runs from the Tan Hill Inn down the Pennine Way.  The problem here isn't the mapping in OSM, but the decision by whoever created the route to have two parallel routes called the same thing.
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> What you'd logically actually do on the ground, of course is ignore the E2 altogether (it's not signed here) and either follow the Pennine Way signage or the Wolds Way / Cleveland Way etc. signage.
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> Best Regards,
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> Andy
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