[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Recreational route relation roles

Volker Schmidt voschix at gmail.com
Thu May 21 13:34:29 UTC 2020


This wikipedia "Trail blazing" <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_blazing>
article (which takes trailblazed and wayarked as meaning the same thing),
has a nice picture collection of way markings.

On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 15:22, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21/05/2020 13:48, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
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> May 21, 2020, 14:17 by kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com:
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> It's still tricky. Around here, few trails are actually signposted;
> some don't have a sign anywhere! They're marked with paint blazes in
> the woods, guideposts in the fields, and cairns above the tree line.
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> Not a native speaker, but I thought that paint blazes,
> guideposts, cairns, signs, surface markings, special traffic signs,
> information boards, markings by cutting on trees, ribbons,
> wooden poles etc all may be used to signpost a trail.
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> My 2p from England:
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> I suspect it'd vary around the world but I'd certainly say "that trail is
> signposted" if all there was was a characteristic paint blaze that
> "everyone recognises" as matching a particular trail.
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> Best Regards,
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> Andy
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