Hello, OSM currently has no hiking tracks mapped in Brazil. We are now receiving (copyright-free) POIs of hiking tracks (representing where they start) from a local mapping community (which gathered this data for over a decade). Unfortunately, we do not have the details of the tracks yet, but I think the POIs could be contributed to OSM in a preliminary form as long as they include a "fixme" tag. This could be a great way to start mapping these tracks (essentially by calling for help where it's needed). Every POI would get these tags: - "tourism=attraction" (best approximation I could think of) - "name" in the format "Track: [original name]" (in Portuguese "Track" would be replaced by "Trilha") - "fixme=Please provide the detailed contour of the route." (in Portuguese it would be "fixme=Detalhar trilha de caminhada.")
The prefix ensures that the tracks are easily told apart from other attractions and that bots can operate on the data if necessary. Our alternatives seem to be a proposing a new tagging scheme (not so useful for a temporary set of POIs) or not import anything at all (seems wasteful). What do you think? -- Fernando Trebien +55 (51) 9962-5409 "The speed of computer chips doubles every 18 months." (Moore's law) "The speed of software halves every 18 months." (Gates' law) _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
