On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 4:20 PM Jmapb via Tagging <[email protected]> wrote: > - Speaking of "yellow", the table specifies that colour should be a > hex triplet, but wiki page for the colour key indicates that named HTML > colours are also acceptable values. And I know many trails are tagged > this way. So probably the new scheme should allow these too?
Since most trail markers are in bright primary colours, I like using the names. Some maintenance organizations specify the marker colours with numbered paint chips from the major paint manufacturers: https://www.nynjtc.org/sites/default/files/documents/Recommended%20colors_0.pdf is an example. I've used #rrggbb to approximate the colours for the Long Path and Highlands Trail, and have otherwise just used the names 'white', 'blue', 'green', 'orange', 'red', 'yellow', 'pink' and 'black'. (The black was an inadvertent omission from the manual, and is used only as a foreground colour atop another colour, usually white.) osmc:symbol is definitely needed to describe the ones from this manual, that club has an elaborate symbology. Other clubs just use a splash of the coloured paint on a tree or rock. Farther north, the only reassurance markers on foot trails are 'red dot', 'yellow dot', 'blue dot', 'white dot' and 'orange dot'. There is little confusion, because trails with the same colour seldom meet. Red is used for through trails running chiefly E/W, blue for through trails running N/S; yellow is for loops and spurs; white is for connectors and where a second colour is needed because of an intersection with yellow; orange markers are for snowmobile, ATV and MTB routes and are usually also signed and/or numbered. Major snowmobile routes have reference numbers and highway shields that look like http://hike.chipmoeser.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/psx_20160823_151117.jpg. I'm not a snowmobilist or MTB or ATV rider, so I map these only in a fragmentary fashion and only as I happen to encounter them. In areas where the directional system is in use, a long route may go through several colour changes but will be signed with its own marker at principal junctions. (Where I map, there are only a handful of long-distance routes affected by this: the Long Path, the Highlands Trail, the Finger Lakes Trail, and the North Country Trail. Other long trails exist and are blazed consistently: for example, the Northville-Placid Trail and Shawangunk Ridge Trail are blue for their entire length, and the Appalachian Trail carries its distinctive rectangular white blazes.) -- 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
