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From: "Richard Fairhurst" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Adding Walking Trails
James Ewen wrote:
Most of the walking and bicycle trails in the city don't even
have signs on them, let alone the ones I have tracked and
added in the back country. We have paved bicycle trails
with no signage... those wouldn't pass the test.
Could I point out there is a little linguistic confusion here? :)
For those of us on this side of the pond, the word "trail" usually refers
to
a waymarked recreational walking route following existing paths and roads.
For example, in the UK, we have a whole series of "National Trails" such
as
the Pennine Way and the Thames Path.
For people on the side of the pond with hamburgers and maple syrup,
however,
a "trail" just means a path.
If you read the thread in the knowledge that Clifford, James, and Richard
W
are from the hamburger/maple syrup side of the pond, and David and Dave
aren't, then it magically makes sense. David and Dave are saying "this
doesn't get special recreational-walking-route status unless it has
signposts". James and Richard W are saying "this is just a path". As
Clifford is from hamburgerland, the "just a path" interpretation is
probably
the more relevant one.
Whilst you may be correct, in his original post Clifford referred to a named
trail the " Burke Gillman trail" , which already exists in OSM, and the fact
that the new trail he wished to add used part of this existing trail, which
is why I took it to mean he was referring to something "more than just a
path".
In any case, I hope Clifford now has enough viewpoints to assist him in
whether this new "trail" should be added to OSM or not.
David
cheers
Richard
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