Hi Bob, I would say adding a relation to describe the whole Thames Path would be very useful. There are already route relations used this way around London for the Capital Ring, London Loop, Lea Valley Walk and more, and they nicely solve the problem of named walking routes following otherwise named streets.
You can see an example rendering at http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2008/05/29/look-ma-no-hands/ To be consistent with the existing walking routes in the area, the relation can be tagged as type = route route = foot network = uk_ldp name = Thames Path Hope this helps, Andy On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Bob Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When the Thames Path, as a recognised national trail, is coincident with a > named metalled road for a distance, is this where a relation should be > applied? I have read about relations, but probably fail to understand how > they work and would like some advice. I imagine, for example, > that a user might want to be able to select the whole Thames Path. Unless > these portions that coincide with named metalled roads are also identified > in some way, then that continuous path does not exist. > > Does that make sense? I have a lot to learn about how people might use the > data that we input and want to be as helpful as possible. > > Bob > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
