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

[Jan Michel]

On 02.06.21 12:49, Peter Elderson wrote:
> * 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.

You're right that a route shouldn't be trailblazed=no. But trailblazed=* 
is also used to tag the kind of waymarking. Cairns or poles should be 
sufficient to count as waymarking of a route, but can't be described by 
symbol tags.


> * 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.

In my opinion, trailblazing and visiblity of the path are two different 
things. And indeed we also have trail_visiblity as a separate tag.

> 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.

I agree.


Jan