[OSM-talk] Tourist/Leisure Trails

[Rodrigo Moya]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 10:55 +0000, Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote:
> Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> >Sent: 18 March 2008 10:49 AM
> >To: Blake Crosby
> >Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
> >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Tourist/Leisure Trails
> >
> >On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 14:33 -0400, Blake Crosby wrote:
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> I think following the current bus route tagging scheme might be a good
> >> start? A "trail" or "walking route" is no different than a cycling route
> >> and bus route..
> >>
> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:route
> >>
> >I miss in the route key a way for "Gran Recorrido" ("Big distance")
> >routes here in Spain, which are routes which cover several kms, off road
> >most of the time, but which use footways, normal tracks (where motor
> >vehicles are allowed), some roads, etc.
> >
> >So how would I tag this? Does the route need to be its own way, or
> >should we just tag the roads/footways/tracks the route uses with the
> >route tag?
> 
> I've tagged some in UK as route=long_distance_footpath as that's what they
> are commonly referred to here. You could also add a specific
> gran_recorrido=true or long_distance_footpath=gran_recorrido tag to achieve
> something similar that's country specific as well.
> 
well, this wouldn't work really, since as I said, it is not a footpath,
it's a route going over "existing" tracks/roads/cities, which means that
lots of parts of the route can be used on a motor vehicle.

Also, we have the Gran Recorrido ones, but there are also the
international routes (E- is the reference they use), and also the short
distance routes (Pequeño Recorrido), as well as local routes (Sendero
Local). All of them use existing ways, and I'm sure there is something
similar in most countries.

Maybe we can add new values for the route tag, like
"long_distance_route", "short_distance_route", "local_route", would that
work for other countries? As for the "gran_recorrido" naming in the
tags, not sure we really need it, since that would be in the ref/name
tags
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo at gnome-db.org>