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

[Jo]

Ben Laenen schreef:
> 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 :-)
>   
It may be true that they will get that role as well. That's part of the 
reason I was not very zealous in mapping them. They do form a rather 
fine mazed network though. More detailed than the cycle node network. 
Over here there are also indicators in between the mushrooms where the 
route is not straightforward. For completeness I wouldn't mind putting 
them on the map as well. But only if we come up with a separate way to 
tag them.
>
> 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
>   

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