[OSM-talk] walking routes?

[Thomas Wood]

On Jan 21, 2008 10:33 AM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it's the latter, the same as for cycling "routes" being the
> meta, rather than the physical ("cycleway"). I've thought about this
> before but I never followed it through. I really think that they
> cycling stuff works well, and it could easily be replicated into
> walking by using the idea of national/regional/local walking routes
> and refs/names, e.g.
>
> nfr = yes, nfr_name = Penine Way
> lfr = proposed, lfr_name = Wandle Trail, lfr_ref = W34
>
> for national footway route, local footway route and so on. *I'm only
> proposing the concept, not the tag names* - I think whoever kicks this
> off should come up with something better than nfr (!), but I think it
> would be nice to work in a parallel fashion to the way we deal with
> cycle routes i.e. completely separating the route information from
> everything else, and having a internationally-applicable hierarchy.
>
> And as an aside to Jo, I'll probably put walking routes on my cycle
> map since I like walking too and, well, it's my map, so I get to chose
> what goes on it!
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>

Coincidentally, I started tagging some of the London Loop near
Banstead/Cheam yesterday, using the proposed route relation tagging
found on the wiki, I started a thread on Talk:London, also:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:London#Long_Distance_Paths

-- 
Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)