[Openstreetmap] Extending GPX to include track type information?

[Schuyler Erle]

* On 21-Mar-2005 at 12:24PM PST, Nick Whitelegg said:
> ... etc.... (like the readable form of the tags? ;-) )

Heh, yes. If you wanted a more compact representation you could in
principle use something like < trkseg horse="0" foot="1" /> or
something...

> Re Lars's point.... I'm a bit worried about each path being a
> separate <trk>.  For example, if you were editing a track, and
> wanted to divide it up into segments of different types, if each
> newly-created segment was separated out into a separate <trk> you
> would lose the information on the parent track of each segment, the
> original GPS-surveyed track. This could be a problem if you made a
> mistake and you wished to delete a segment. I do feel that there
> needs to be a way to associate track *segments* with types.

I think this makes sense.

SDE