[OSM-talk] tagging "unofficial" cycle routes

[Jonathan Bennett]

Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> If the clubs have documented and are maintaining the routes, then they
> are official enough. Just use the "operator" tag to mark which club is
> responsible for which route. "network" tag could be also used for that,
> but it is currently used rather for describing network scope
> (internationl/national/regional/local).

That doesn't necessarily work -- if the routes aren't waymarked on the
ground, the only source of the route is the organisations' own
publications, to which they have automatic copyright. Unless we have
their permission in writing to reproduce the route under the terms of
CC-BY-SA the routes can't be added to OSM.

Sticking purely to waymarked routes avoids this problem. I agree it
would be nice for groups like these to be able to share their
information in OSM format, but the OSM DB may not be the place to do it.
We need to preserve the ability to freely redistribute it.

-- 
Jonathan (Jonobennett)