[Tagging] Route node roles - was Re: Feature Proposal - RFC - hiking_trail_relation_roles

[Warin]

On 09/12/19 11:07, Kevin Kenny wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 6:45 PM Peter Elderson <pelderson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ok, just asking to make sure.
>>
>> Could you envision a node passed by two hikes, and being a checkpoint for the one and nothing special for the other?
> Certainly, for the sort of checkpoint that's to show that a hiker
> actually took the route, it's quite imaginable. There's a register on
> the median (not mapped, and I haven't been down that way in a couple
> of years to attend to it) at the motorway crossing on
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/369195402 and a sign politely
> requesting that Appalachian Trail hikers sign in. The sign says
> nothing about the Ramapo-Dunderberg Trail, which shares the treadway
> at that point. (I sign in anyway.)
>
> For the mandatory checkpoints that I discussed in an earlier post,
> pretty much any route that passes the checkpoint is a "must check in".

For the 'Overland Track' signing in is mandatory for through hikers, day trippers don't have to and most of these don't.