[OSM-talk] Tagging of jogging tracks

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Thu May 8 13:41:34 BST 2008


On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> How should I tag a track in the woods that are designated for exercise like
>  walking or jogging?  I tried to read the page Map_Features in the wiki, but
>  didn't really get much help.
>
>  All the values for the 'sport' key are just applied to nodes and areas, not
>  ways. The same goes for the 'leisure' tag.
>
>  A combination that I can imagine is:
>   highway=footway
>   leisure=jogging
>  but how would that be rendered?  Another option is highway=track.

I would say highway = footway, sport = jogging - don't worry about the
sport key only being for nodes and areas - think of it more as "only
nodes and areas until now" !

But really, anything that makes sense to you, and that's similar to
stuff there already should be fine.

Cheers,
Andy




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