On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 7:39 PM, Alan Grant <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I think there is an analogy with an aspect of hiking trails that I have > never been sure how to map. Sometimes a waymarked hiking route crosses a > beach, or follows an ephemeral river bed. There may be no physical footway, > path, or track across these areas that can be mapped. Following the ideas > above, maybe a way could be drawn with route=hiking and included in the > route relation. Has anyone done this or seen it used in the context of > hiking or other land-based route types? > Again, from https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:route "routes for vehicles when there is no road (e.g., desert)." Substitute foot for vehicle (both are means of transport) and beach for desert (both can be sandy :) ). It's not big stretch. The examples on that web page are just that: examples. It explicitly says "If used on ways, route describes a route which is not linked to a physical object like streets or rails." -- Paul
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