Ian Dees writes: > Thomas, I'd caution against placing nodes every mile and tagging them > highway=milestone unless there's something more notable about them. Mile > markers could be computed from the length of the way and all the extra data > might not be useful.
Mile markers on railroads are not necessarily a mile apart. Nor are they necessarily all present. Nor are they obviously numbered from the beginning of whatever they mark. For example, the Catskill Scenic Trail has mile markers which are left over from its being the Ulster & Delaware railroad. They are marked "K #" which is enormously useful if you're the railroad and want to know how far it is to Kingston, but more of an arbitrary identifier for users of the trail. -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
