Sorry if I was not clear. This example matches the basic description you gave. It is not just a crossing, there is more: a guidepost, a register, i.e. visiblty designated, and it is listed and customary.
Nothing in the basic description is specific for TOPs. With "Excludes ... " I thought of the suggestion by someone on this list that all crossings could be marked as trailheads because you can start a route at any crossing. Op vr 11 jan. 2019 om 15:46 schreef Kevin Kenny <[email protected]>: > On 1/11/19 2:43 AM, Peter Elderson wrote: > > This covers all trailheads mapped worldwide so far, and excludes > > locations where a trail just crosses a road. > > Here we go again. > > Some of the trailheads I've used are exactly that. One of those that I > can recall in particular is an important trailhead. If you start away > from it, it will be 60 km before you reach the next road that a car can > drive on, and another 25 to reach a town where you can get supplies or > assistance. If I recall correctly (it's about three years since I was up > that way) all there is at the trailhead is a guidepost (there's a > register book, but it's in the woods maybe 400 m to discourage > vandalism). If you want to park a car, you do that at a county > maintenance garage that's about half a km away on the highway. > > And yes, this *is* a customary and designated place for starting/ending > a trip It's a 220 km trail, so most hikers don't do it in one shot. It's > a wilderness trail, so it simply doesn't have a lot of facilities other > than at its endpoints. A trailhead on that trail is simply any place > with highway access - and I can count them on my fingers, including a > couple that have access trails that aren't the main trail (maybe about a > 5 km trip to get to the road from the main trail) and another couple > that cross 4WD-only roads. > > There's no government agency designating the trailheads. The trail is > maintained by a hiking club, with the cooperation of the state > Department of Environmental Conservation. (The maintenance is haphazard, > as you'd expect on a trail that remote. That's part of the experience.) > The trailheads, however, are listed in guidebooks, and appear in a > shapefile that I get from the DEC that describes points of interest on > state-owned land. (I do *not* import that file because of data quality > issues.) > > Despite your repeated denials, you're continuing to try to invent a set > of definitions that, at least in NL, will encompass all TOPs and nothing > else. If that's your aim, then invent a tag for TOP and use it, > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Vr gr Peter Elderson
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