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

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Thu May 21 14:42:28 UTC 2020


Yes, the requirements are the same.

The important part is that this proposal is not changing what can be included in the route relation,
and sections that are not part of a route still cannot be included in it.

May 21, 2020, 16:38 by pelderson at gmail.com:

> 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. 
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> Vr gr Peter Elderson
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> 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.
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>> Though there was another thread recently about what constituents a route vs just a named path..
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