[Tagging] How to tag recreational route with multiple route types?

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Sun Aug 15 06:47:33 UTC 2021



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> On 15 Aug 2021, at 08:02, Yves via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> 
> In my opinion, a route is something rather abstract. At least more abstract than a way on which we tag surface=, smootheness=...
> So when we use a route relation to *model* a route in OSM, the exact model we use is not so important as long as the route is mapped properly. The 'one feature, one element' is very rhetoric here! 
> 
> If a hiking relation share the exact same members as another cycling relation, the information is there, no need to give a harder time to data consumers.


+1, completely agree. The one feature one element rule is very subjective anyway, as there aren’t “features” in the real world, features become features because we interpret them as features, what is a feature depends on the definition of tags.

Cheers Martin 


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