[OSM-talk] Tagging of jogging tracks

[Inge Wallin]

On Thursday 08 May 2008 15:17:31 Michael Collinson wrote:
> At 02:23 PM 5/8/2008, Inge Wallin wrote:

> This is a "Motionspår" area with several short to
> medium length tracks aimed individually at
> joggers/runners, health walkers, mountain bikers
> and sometimes cross-country skiers, often with
> way-markers showing the sport?  There is really
> nothing similar in the UK so it needs a bit of new creativity.

Yes, that is indeed what it is. I haven't tracked it yet, but there is also a 
mountain bike track in that area.  I suppose that should be tagged:

  highway=cycleway
  sport=mountainbike

Except...  these are not really ways at all, but narrow tracks through the 
woods that are not suitable for anything really, except mountainbiking. In 
fact, they are narrower and worse than the highway=footway that I have 
tracked so far, because they are also full of roots and stones.

> I suggest extending the sport= tag to ways as you
> describe (that is what I do now):
>
> highway=footway
> sport=jogging
>
> To show up on the map right now, I do this:
>
> highway=footway
> sport=jogging
> name=jogging track

And moreover, there is a standardized color coding for the length of a track 
so that red=2.5km, yellow=5km, and so on.  On the rendered map, I'd really 
love to have a red square rotated 45 degrees so that it's standing on one of 
the corners to mark the short track and a yellow one for the 5 km (shown on 
the map in the link right now).

Sometimes they use common segments, so that a tagging like

  length=2.5km;5km could be used.

Map renderer developers: pleeease??  :-)

> (Sorry, my Swedish does not yet extend to
> "jogging track"!).  I leave the name in lower
> case to distinguish it from "real" names.
>
> Else, you need to propose a specific set of
> Motionspår sport names and how they'd be rendered
> when encountered. May be a bit complicated for now?

I think sport=jogging and/or sport=mtb or moutainbike is good enough for now.  
It's just that the map renderers need to be enhanced too, otherway the tags 
are useless.

Thanks for the input

	-Inge