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

[Jmapb]

On 12/9/2019 3:43 AM, Peter Elderson wrote:
>
> I have walked many "Camino" sections in Italy. The "checkpoints" are
> just stamps, you can get them at many shops, hotels, restaurants,
> tourist info points and the like on the way. They will stamp anything
> for anyone who asks. There is no register, nothing is checked. I would
> not call them checkpoints and I would certainly not attempt to map
> them. In Nederland, I don't know about shops, hotels and restaurants.
> On the other hand, there are special places like convents and some
> churches where pilgrims can stay the night and eat very cheap or free.
> They would check and maybe register the pilgrim's passport, I guess.
> These points would merit rendering and routing, I think. I don't know
> if it helps to tie it to a particular route though. It's a POI passed
> by one or more routes. The map can show it, routers can use it and it
> can be exported in a gpx or kml.
> It's one of those things I would not map unless I can be reasonably
> sure it will be maintained and used for actual rendering, routing
> and/or export.
>
Haven't hiked any bits of the Camino myself, so my impressions are
secondhand, but I was told some places -- I think the second type you
mention, the convents etc -- are required checkpoints for official
completion of the route. And to any other passers-by, they're simply a
convent, an inn, whatever amenity they actually are (and of course
should be mapped as such.)

Regardless of whether this is a correct description of the way
checkpoints function on the Camino de Santiago, it's an illustration of
how a checkpoint COULD relate to a particular route but not to another
that shares the same way. So if (big if) we want hiking route relations
to support non-highway members, this is something to consider.

J

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/attachments/20191209/8eafb518/attachment.html>