[OSM-talk] Horse trails. Good examples?

[Jóhannes Birgir Jensson]

An example from Iceland includes these bridleways and stables (two 
seperate areas, one in each municipality). The racetrack seems to be 
rendering incorrectly.


http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/64.0789/-21.8358


Þann 22.12.2013 16:25, skrifaði Philip Barnes:
> On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 09:18 -0500, Richard Weait wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Are there good examples of horse trails and horse 'infrastructure' in
>> OpenStreetMap data?  Links please?
>>
>>
>> What makes a well-mapped horse trail facility?  Parking with horse
>> trailer parking indicated?  Blacksmith shop with horseshoe repair,
>> alignment, rotation and balancing?  Saloons (it's like a pub so it's
>> probably already mapped) with hitching post, watering trough and poop
>> and scoop bags?
>>
>>
>> Are there renderings that include many or most items of interest to
>> horse riders?
> Horse trails is an American term, OSM uses the British word bridleway.
>
> Bridleways are becoming increasingly mapped as part of the the process
> of mapping rights of way network.
>
> An example of bridleway can be seen here, although they are not hard to
> find on osm
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/52.7823/-2.8992
>
> Other infrastructure I am not aware of, but thing such as parking do not
> need to be special for horse boxes, beyond lack of height limit bars.
>
> Saloons make me think of the wild west and whiskey and gunfights, do
> they still exist outside heritage places? It is certainly not uncommon
> to see horses at pubs, although I have never seen them tied up whilst
> the owner is inside, usually one stays outside and someone else get the
> drinks and brings them out. Country pubs will welcome horseriders in the
> same way they do walkers or cyclists and any pub will provide a bowl of
> water if asked, whether its for a horse or a dog.
>
> Phil (trigpoint)
>
>
>
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