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

[Andrew Harvey]

On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 22:49, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> 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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> Is "signposted" referring to only some specific methods of marking
> a trail?
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To me all those things tell me that someone else uses this track for
walking and I'm not too lost and reassures that I'm not just bush bashing
or following an animal trail.

Critically those things say there is a trail here, but don't say where the
trail goes as part of a route, so in that case without knowing the exact
route, I don't see how it can be marked out as a recreational route.

Though there was another thread recently about what constituents a route vs
just a named path..
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