[Tagging] Section numbers in hiking routes

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Sun May 24 00:06:20 UTC 2020


Name of a route, if one exists.

May 23, 2020, 18:17 by winfixit at gmail.com:

> In the end, what will be left in the name tag exactly?
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> Polyglot
>
> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 5:53 PM Peter Elderson <> pelderson at gmail.com> > wrote:
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>> 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. 
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>> 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=*. 
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>> 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=*. 
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>> A ref in the name: store in ref=*.
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>> 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. 
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>> 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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