On 28.08.2012 18:06, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
Recently a member of the Belgian community announced on the German
mailing list, that "the Belgian Community" had decided to make a mass
edit to change all route=foot to route=hiking.
He said the wiki said that these 2 had the same meaning. Further
discussion on the German ML showed that instead there might be subtle
differences. E.g. for short pedestrian routes inside of cities
"hiking" was perceived as not appropriate.
Looking at the actually used values there are even more variants for
pedestrian routes (in order of occurence):
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/route#values
hiking
foot
walking
Well this part is rather easy. I think we should separate:
1. city loops and so on
2. walking routes that are not in the mountains/outback (you generally
don't need hiking boots, outdoor equipment)
3. hiking routes in the mountains, in the outback/wilderness (it is
advisable to have outdoor equipment like hiking boots, adapted clothes,
and so on)
4. alpine/expedition routes (you need specialised equipment, tent, first
aid kits, and so on). General hiking/touristic maps likely don't include
them. Note that they need to be signposted though...
and maybe also
running
nordic_walking (16 times)
and some even less used ones
watch out here, we need to state often enough, that only signposted
routes, shall be included in OSM. E.g. most places where people go
running, are NOT signposted for running. (e.g. in Vienna Donauinsel or
Prater - there is no single signposted running route, but thousands of
people go running there every hour during daytime, likely I think for
New York Central Park, or other very popular places for running). Also
state that a route a Marathon takes every year, shouldn't be included,
as long as it's not signposted or visible on the ground!
I'd like to discuss about the meaning of those values (currently the
wiki isn't very verbose about the meaning) and then we could transfer
this into the wiki to expand these articles:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Route#Walking_routes_.28also_hiking_and_pilgrimage.29
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Walking_Routes
"Walking routes are named or numbered or otherwise signed routes,
which may go along roads or trails or combinations of these. See also
Hiking." e.g. it doesn't even say that these routes are for
pedestrians (I guess whoever wrote this thought it was obvious).
My personal view is that hiking has a somehow different connotation
then walking, while "foot" might be used to summarize the 2 under one
generic term.
cheers,
Martin
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