[Talk-us] Another "how would you...?"

[David ``Smith'']

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:40 PM, David Carmean <dlc at halibut.com> wrote:
>
>
> There are a number of wildlife preservation areas established in the marshlands
> around the San Francisco Bay, and those which are not designated as Wilderness
> areas usually have pedestrian access (SF Bay Trail, etc.).  In a number of
> locations there are dedicated observation decks built as part of a system of
> boardwalks over the marshes.  Sometimes they have benches and even picnic tables,
> often they have descriptive signs, etc.  Others have none of these features.
>
> How should I tag such an observation deck?  They are certainly not blinds/hides
> (though there are hundreds of waterfowl hunting hides in the area as well).

I'd go with, for the boardwalks:

highway=footway
bridge=yes

and for the observation decks, draw a closed way around the edge tagged thusly:

highway=footway
bridge=yes
area=yes

I really can't predict how a bridge-area-footway would render in any
of the slippy maps, but I think that tagging adequately describes the
features.

In the case of a named trail, you could add the name of the trail to
the ways that form it, or better, create a route relation:

type=route
route=hiking
network=lwn
name=...

I'm not sure if hiking routes are covered in the wiki, but I've seen a
few relations tagged like this.  I assume "lwn" means "local walking
network" as a parallel to "lcn" meaning "local cycle network".

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David "Smith"
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