[Talk-us] Desert wash that is also vehicle track or path?

Tod Fitch tod at fitchdesign.com
Wed Oct 28 23:42:51 UTC 2015


I have worked with multipolygon relations and with route relations, but I am unfamiliar with a relation for a single stream or highway way. What type(s) would those relations be?

> On Oct 28, 2015, at 4:31 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Tod Fitch <tod at fitchdesign.com> writes:
> 
>> My inclination is to use one way but that gives an issue with the
>> name=* tag. In the case of the Cherry Wash Trail there is two names
>> (“Cherry Wash” and “Cherry Wash Trail”).
>> 
>> My thought is to use one way with the following tags:
>> 
>> highway=path
>> name=Cherry Wash Trail
>> alt_name=Cherry Wash
>> waterway=stream
>> intermittent=yes
> 
> Without thinking too much:
> 
>  one way for the feature
> 
>  a relation with one member for the trail
>  a relation with one member for the stream
> 
> That seems cleaner and gets the names right.
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