Hello During a meeting of Lithuanian mappers we raised an idea, that it would be useful to have type of track recorded along access/security details. That is currently you only specify how your traces can be accessed (public, private, intermediary). It would be nice to be able specify how were those tracks recorded and for what purpose. Say: * Motorcar * Bicycle * Foot (along road/street) * Foot (along some feature (f.e. forest/woodland/lake/river bank/edge)) * Unclassified track (for tracks recorded with GPS switched on while doing a lot of different activities: driving, walking, sitting in one place etc. - probably the default setting or the one used for all previous traces).
This could later be used in editors to use different colours for different types of traces. This way we would rather approximate street track along motorcar traces (if available) rather than "foot-traces" done walking alongside the street. For example if I want to mark a better bank of a lake (or say edge of a forest), I could walk around a lake and mark that trace as "Foot (alongside natural object)" so that it is displayed as say blue/green in JOSM. This way other mappers would not confuse it with actual footpath or even worse - track/road. What do you think? P.S. Currently there is a possibility to add "tags", but those are not "predefined", there is no clear explanation how to use them etc. And anyway, currently they are used (as far as I know) to specify a "place" traces rather than "how" or "for what purpose" was a trace done. P.S.S. I do understand that the best source for mapping such natural features would be aerial photos, but until or where those are not available or are available in bad detail... -- Tomas Straupis _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk