yes, a sub-group to deal with trails can be created for trail=*, i'll also look into that and see what has already been done by the other schemas for this sub-grouping.
My aim is to have a full tagging schema report (SchemaTroll 2.01 - White Paper) done by Nov 21st. Cheers, Sam On 10/22/10, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > It's now almost 3 years that I'm mapping and when I entered small > informal (not planned or built) footpaths I was using cryptic tag > combinations like highway=footway, informal=yes, width=0.3 (or > highway=path), surface=ground. While that is not impossible, it is > still somehow strange. Why shouldn't we simply add another highway > class on the lowest end? Would simplify all of our lives (at least for > all those who sometimes leave the car when mapping) and add some > clarity. > > Looking at a dictionary I found "trail" (for german "Trampelpfad"), > and helas: there is already a tag-page: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtrail > > It isn't very clear though and from the picture I'd say that is > highway=path. > > I am aiming at stuff like this: > http://www.thesenselessunit.net/funnystuff/trampelpfad.jpg > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Trampelpfad_zum_Michaelberg_im_Maudacher_Bruch.jpg > http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kenkp9DHXXA/SsrR-lYGdOI/AAAAAAAAB0Q/HqUc6Nob-Ag/s320/trampelpfad1.jpg > > especially in urban setting (unofficial ways in parks where there > should have been a way but nobody planned/built it and similar > situations). > > We could hijack the trail page (given that trail to native speakers > implies what I want to express) and - after getting to a conclusion > here - put a meaningful definition there. An alternative could be > highway=informal (IMHO; what do you think?). > > There are currently according to taginfo 77 ways highway=trail in our > data, which is 0,00% of the total of 32,7 million ways tagged with > highway. Probably most (if not all) of those ways will still be > congruent with the refined new definition of highway=trail, but we > could attach a FIXME to them. > > Or do you already have another well established tag for those informal > paths? > > Cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #osm-ca Canadian OSM channel (an open chat room) @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
