[Tagging] issue tag|trailblazed + tag|osmc:symbol / tag|wiki:symbol

[Peter Elderson]

" Tag trailblazed=* on paths or tracks which are only visible because of
poles, cairns or other markings.If only part of the way is trailblazed for
visibility, only tag the relevant sections."

This tagging instruction is clear enough, but the description " Markings on
outdoor paths and trails by signs, markers, poles, cairns or in another way. "
does not reflect that. I think the description should be changed.

Remarks

* If a route is not waymarked, it should not be in OSM (with a few special
exceptions). So you do not need trailblazed=* on a route. Just symbol
and/or osmc:symbol.

* Some ways can only be seen through some kind of markings. Mostly these
markings are not symbols, but poles or cairns. The traiblazed=* tag
addresses that.

Peter Elderson


Op wo 2 jun. 2021 om 11:50 schreef Jan Michel <jan at mueschelsoft.de>:

> On 02.06.21 11:08, Peter Elderson wrote:
> > David Marchal
> >
> >     I totally agree with Jan: typically, hiking routes are trailblazed
> >     and use many OSM ways with a unique symbol; in this case, using
> >     trailblazed=*+osmc:symbol=* on the route makes more sense, as the
> >     symbols are related to the route, not to the different path
> >     segments. Without these routes, the paths would have no symbol and
> >     would not be trailblazed.
> >
> >
> > This is exactly the point of the trailblazed tag. It is used on a way to
> > indicate that the way is only visible by some kind of trailblazing, e.g.
> > poles or cairns.
> That might be one special case of trailblazing, but is not reflected by
> the description of the tag. The tag is used to describe if there is any
> kind of trailblazing, independent of the visibility of the way and the
> kind of markers used. In particular, there is trailblazed=symbols which
> needs one of the "symbol" tags for further description.
>
>
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