[OSM-talk-be] Regional walking networks

[Ben Laenen]

On Tuesday 11 October 2011 02:46:35 Gerard Vanderveken wrote:
> I believe the Wiki should be changed and in stead of the node tag, a
> name or ref tag should be used.

We've talked about this issue so often now, and we keep having the same 
problem with the name or ref tags: it's not those routes' names or reference 
numbers. It's the network which has a name, not the routes themselves.

And what the Lonvia map shows is actually a result of using the name tag 
inappropriately.


> See also this discussion.:
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-be/2011-August/002213.html
> 
> At the end I asked for a feature request on the website of Open Street
> Map and Potlatch, to have more info beside the meaningless relation id
> numbers.
> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4017
> As you can see this note tag is an abuse and will never be supported by
> the website or Potlatch.

Well, in my eyes using the name tag would be "abuse".

And we use the note tag just because it's the best tag available without 
having to get support for some other tags, and luckily it's shown in JOSM as 
well. Do you have better proposals?


> [...]
>
> I would prefer to have 3 networks (Dijleland, Kouters and Pajottenland)
> in stead of one large Groene Gordel.
> I think it will be too big with too many nodes and routes (some in
> duplication) for being practical.
> (It may also hit the limit for maximun number of members)
> Also the people that live there, love their region and don't want to be
> part of some politically defined artificiallity.
> http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=DMF20111008_072
> 
> In general,  I would take the divisions as listed in WikiPedia
> http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fietsnetwerk#Status_in_Belgi.C3.AB
> and put that as base in the OSM wiki
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Cycle_Routes#Cycle_N
> ode_Networks


The problem is: can we get those divisions without actually looking at the 
maps the publish?

Greetings
Ben