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

Peter Elderson pelderson at gmail.com
Thu May 21 14:38:11 UTC 2020


Is it ok for you to leave that discussion out of this proposal? Let's say:
if it is decided that there is a route with additional sections verifiably
belonging to the route, this role-set can be used in the route relation to
indicate the purpose of the special sections.


Vr gr Peter Elderson


Op do 21 mei 2020 om 16:03 schreef Andrew Harvey <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.
>
> Though there was another thread recently about what constituents a route
> vs just a named path..
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