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

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Mon May 25 00:24:04 UTC 2020


Local to me the 'Great North Walk' is signposted in many different ways.

e.g.
Post with directional arrows 
http://thegreatnorthwalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ww_photo_Looking-into-Mulbinga-Street.jpg
Some of these posts have no name plate so those may not be recognized by 
those unfamiliar.

Signboard 
http://thegreatnorthwalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ww_photo_GNW-sign-on-the-Lyrebird-Trail.jpg

Register 
http://thegreatnorthwalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ww_photo_GNW-walkers-register.jpg

There are signboards indicating ways to the Great North Walk .. 
unfortunately labeled 'Great North Walk' leaving off the 'To the' so 
leading to miss-tagging of these paths/tracks - they are 'approach' 
paths/tracks/roads.


On 21/5/20 11:34 pm, Volker Schmidt wrote:
> This wikipedia "Trail blazing" 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_blazing> article (which takes 
> trailblazed and wayarked as meaning the same thing), has a nice 
> picture collection of way markings.
>
> On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 15:22, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ajt1047 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 21/05/2020 13:48, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>     May 21, 2020, 14:17 by kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com>:
>>
>>         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.
>>
>>     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.
>>
>     My 2p from England:
>
>     I suspect it'd vary around the world but I'd certainly say "that
>     trail is signposted" if all there was was a characteristic paint
>     blaze that "everyone recognises" as matching a particular trail.
>
>     Best Regards,
>
>     Andy
>
>
>
>     _____________________
>

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