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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

May 21, 2020, 16:00 by andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com:

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> 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.
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> 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.
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In Poland there is a standard method for hiking at least some types of recreational routes.

For example
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szlak_turystyczny#/media/Plik:CzerwonySzlakTurystyczny.jpg
is certainly marking hiking walking route (red bar within white bars means that it is
a red hiking trail).

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szlak_turystyczny#/media/Plik:Tourist_trails_pl01.jpg
is marking (from top) skiing route, red horse trail (within orange bars), and three hiking
walking routes (within white bars) - blue route, yellow route and black route.

Additional information boards, signs, guideposts, cairns, signs, wooden poles etc
may be present but such markings as on photos 
are completely sufficient to mark it as a recreational route.


> 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.
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Except rare cases of imports you need to anyway travel entire route to map it in OSM.
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