[OSM-talk-be] More cycle routes...

[Ben Laenen]

On Friday 23 May 2008, Jo wrote:
> What about the mushrooms? I don't think they will be going away and
> they are not only a Vlaams-Brabant phenomenon. So I would like to see 
> another level for that as well. Now they go under lcn, but that
> muddies the waters a lot. Some theme routes already share roads and
> it's a hodge podge as it is. Combining that with the mushroom's
> network would become really a mess. For the record, at the moment I'm
> only storing the mushrooms themselves as nodes.


Oh yes, I forgot about those mushrooms :-)

I'm really unfamiliar with these mushrooms in Vlaams-Brabant and how you 
have to cycle on them, but to me it looks like some kind of pre-cycle 
node network at the moment and rcn would be more appropriate then 
IMHO... But then we need some kind of way to distinguish them from the 
cycle node network...

The mushrooms over here are in Antwerp are only there to complement the 
cycle node network. It gives you an idea of your location, but it 
doesn't make a network of own routes, and to me they have the same 
information as signs like: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:Belgium-trafficsign-f34b1.jpg
so over here there's no need to map them (since mapping that would be 
like mapping every direction sign you see)

My guess is that the mushrooms in Vlaams-Brabant eventually will get 
that role as well...

And if they don't... I don't know :-)


Maybe we should just deploy our own cycle map renderer with all our 
dozen tags for each kind of network... Someone who has a spare server 
somewhere? :-p

Greetings
Ben