[OSM-talk] touristic car routes

[Joseph Booker]

On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:20:51 +0200
Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Simon Wood wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:14:45 +0200
> >
> > Ivo van den Maagdenberg <ivo.vdmaagdenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Just noticed a marked scenic route for cars. Any suggestions for
> > > the route tag fort the relation that could mark this kind of
> > > routes?
> > >
> > > name=..., type=route, route=car
> >
> > I have been using:
> > <tag k="route" v="road"/>
> > <tag k="type" v="route"/>
> 
> That would work, if it wasn't the case that those tags are now in use
> for road number "routes", so all E-roads in Europe have a route=road
> relation for example, and several countries have them for many more
> road numbers.
> 
> This is something completely different obviously. I'd say
> route=motorcar would be a good option (to be consistent with existing
> route=bicycle and route=foot for cycle and walking routes).
> 
> Ben

It is still a route through (several?) roads though. The 'network' key
allows you to differentiate between E-roads, tourists routes, other
country route numbers, etc.

-- 
Joseph Booker
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