[OSM-talk] tagging trailblazes / marked paths

Alex Mauer hawke at hawkesnest.net
Thu Aug 7 19:04:36 BST 2008


Dave Stubbs wrote:
> If the point is to show all possible paths, then you'll also want to
> similarly show all the roads as well? In which case an else rule on
> highway=* would solve the problem.

The point is to show all possible paths and highlight one particular
subset of them, yeah.

This is the sort of map I envision:
http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/Schmeeckle/Map/images/schmeeckle_map.jpg

Note that it is useful to differentiate roads from paths on that sort of
map, so a catchall on highway=* wouldn't be sufficient.  And before
someone says it, I'm not trying to duplicate that map in OSM.

> So the only distinction created by highway=path is that it is of type
> "path" which is a sufficiently broad spectrum of features from tiny

It's not there to distinguish one kind of path from another, it's there
to distinguish a path from something which isn't a path, such as a road.

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> Does anyone know why they might have done this? A preset somewhere
> maybe? (anonymous user so I can't ask them).

Looks like the JOSM paths preset to me.  If someone used that to change
it to a path and thought they had to fill in all the access
restrictions, that would likely be the result.  "no" is probably
correct, since it means "not permitted or unsuitable" -- if it gets so
little snow, it's probably unsuitable for skiing.

-Alex Mauer "hawke"





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