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

[Dave F]

I needs emphasizing that the name of a path is not same as the name of a 
designated route. One path, multiple routes.

Davef

On 14/08/2021 19:58, Kevin Kenny wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 2:27 PM Brian M. Sperlongano 
> <zelonewolf at gmail.com <mailto:zelonewolf at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 2:13 PM Kevin Kenny
>     <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com <mailto:kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         The trail winds up having a couple of places that route
>         through city streets because the railbed was unusable for one
>         reason or another. The pedestrian route takes a short path on
>         the sidewalk because it doesn't need to respect the direction
>         of a one-way street. The cycling route uses that path (on the
>         road rather than the sidewalk) in the forward direction, but
>         has to detour a few blocks in the reverse direction to follow
>         the traffic law.
>
>
>     I would argue in this case that the on-the-ground-reality is that
>     there are /actually two separate routes/, which you have correctly
>     modeled as such, rather than duplications for different modes of
>     travel.
>
>
> There are other commenters in the thread who believe strongly that 
> since the route has one name, one set of signage over the overwhelming 
> majority of its length, one operator, and so on, that it must be a 
> single object in OSM.  I'm simply arguing that as far as I can see, a 
> case like this is passing the data model past its limits. Maybe a 
> superroute could unify the foot and cycle routes? I don't know, and I 
> really don't care all that much, because I care more whether the 
> software that consumes the data will understand the situation exists 
> in the field than whether a Platonist would say that the foot and 
> cycle routes are one entity or two.
>
>
> -- 
> 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
>
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