[Tagging] Section numbers in hiking routes

Jo winfixit at gmail.com
Sat May 23 17:43:15 UTC 2020


I would say the route name goes on the routemaster relation. That way it's
possible to differentiate in the names of the route relations and make them
more specific. That's probably not what Peter is proposing though.

Jo

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 7:40 PM Tod Fitch <tod at fitchfamily.org> wrote:

> I was under the impression that the consensus was that a route name should
> be in a route relation that holds all the segments and that the segment
> names, if different from the route name, were on the segment.
>
> Has that consensus changed or has my impression been wrong?
>
> Cheers!
> Tod
>
> On May 23, 2020, at 9:41 AM, Peter Elderson <pelderson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hold on to your hat.... In the name tag I will store...The Name Of The
> Route!
>
> Op za 23 mei 2020 om 18:18 schreef Jo <winfixit at gmail.com>:
>
>> In the end, what will be left in the name tag exactly?
>>
>> Polyglot
>>
>> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 5:53 PM Peter Elderson <pelderson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to improve on the name-tag mess in the many hiking/foot
>>> routes in Nederland. All kinds of information is packed in those names. I
>>> am not doing any cleaning (yet) until all this information can be stored in
>>> proper tags and is handled or scheduled by significant renderers/data
>>> users/tools. There must be reasons for this (ab)use, because it is done all
>>> over the globe.
>>>
>>> It's very common to store <from>-<to> and sometimes <via> in the name
>>> tag. That's an easy one: we have from=*, via=*, to=*.
>>>
>>> Sometimes a complete description, a comment or a note (.e.g. about a
>>> temporary detour) is added to the name. Easy: we have description=, note=*,
>>> comment=*.
>>>
>>> A ref in the name: store in ref=*.
>>>
>>> Another item is *section number*. This is often used when the route is
>>> split in sections, often according to the sectioning given by the
>>> operator/website. So firstly it's a sort of reference, secondly its an
>>> ordering and sorting mechanism.
>>> Sometimes sections have their own name. I see that a lot in
>>> international (super)routes.
>>>
>>> Any ideas how to do this without (ab)using the name tag? Is there a
>>> proper tag that springs to mind, or should we invent one?
>>>
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