[OSM-talk] tagging long distance footpaths (and other named footpaths)

[Mike Collinson]

At 06:16 PM 23/10/2007, Peter Miller wrote:
>Any suggestions as to what tag to use to name long distance footpaths. The one in question at times follows roads and also national and regional cycle routes.
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>As with roads and cycle-ways there are national footpaths (Pedlars Way etc in the UK) there are regional and also local ones.  Sometimes one stretch of path may be on two different networks as well as being part of the national cycle route or whatever.
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>It might be good to have different tags for national, regional and local paths and be able to draw them using different colours as is done with cycle routes?

route= could be used now.  Utilising relations looks interesting as other posters have commented.  The UK-derived ncn/ncn_ref rcn/rcn_ref lcn/lcnref system for cycleways seems to be working; I've been able adopt it here in Sweden with no problem.  How about an exact footpath analogue?  nfp/nfp_ref rfp/rfp_ref lfp/lfpref?

Mike
Stockholm
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