[Tagging] Section numbers in hiking routes
Yves
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Sat May 23 17:44:36 UTC 2020
While the original question was about a good tag to record the section number, whick look like a reference, I would be tempted to answer Jo that to know which country you're in, you should look at Your OSM Database!
Joke aside, such a cross border route makes a good candidate for a super route.
Yves
Le 23 mai 2020 18:49:31 GMT+02:00, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> a écrit :
>So in the case of a route that passes through The Netherlands, Belgium
>and
>France, the part in The Netherlands and Flanders will have the same
>name
>(in Dutch)? And the parts in Wallonia and France will have the same
>name as
>well, but in French instead? No indication which country/region they
>are
>passing through?
>
>Jo
>
>On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 6:42 PM 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?
>>>>
>>>> Peter Elderson
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