[OSM-talk] Tourist/Leisure Trails

[Thomas Wood]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:28 PM,  <simon at mungewell.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>  There is already a page in the wiki for trails
>  (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapping/Features/Trail), but this
>  is really just tagging a way with permitted usage (such as footpath,
>  cyclepath, etc.).
>
>  Is there any way of marking a 'trail', where a marked route which may
>  exist on other ways in part or as a whole?
>
>  Primarily I am thinking a walking trail (say called 'Dead man's leap' ;-)
>  which might start at a parking location (trail head?) and follow a road
>  for 1km, footpath for 2km, ford a stream, etc.. These might also be more
>  extensive, such as 'Route 66' (USA) or 'Cowboy Trail' (Alberta, Canada).
>
>  If not, I would propose another category of way; which would be mapped as
>  an  additional way at the same locations as the normal ways.
>
>  There could be a node 'trail head' for the start/trail head/staging post,
>  and 'trail point'(??) for directional/informational locations. Specifying
>  a trail type (car, walking, horse, cycle, snow-mobile, etc) would also be
>  sensible.
>
>  [Thinking more as I type this, is this not also applicable for bus routes?]
>
>  In terms for rendering I think that this would not normally be rendered on
>  the normal maps, but a 'tourist map' might include these as a
>  dot-dashed(??) line.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Mungewell
>

Take a look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Routes,
the cyclemap currently has support for them, and I'm thinking about
rendering long distance paths (UK term for a trail) for one local
project I'm involved in.

-- 
Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)