> > If following the route marking you will get back to start... It's a circular > route. > As previously stated you could find marking on both directions and be a > single line straight and then reverse. > With old wiki definition this is Roundtrip=no... Now it is Roundtrip=yes > Seems sane to me.
A linear walking route marked in both directions is not a roundtrip. You're not guided to turn around at the end and return to the start. You are free to do that and make your cross-the-alps trail a roundtrip, of course, but I have yet to encounter anyone who does that. Could become an Australian hype maybe? :) So no, I wouldn't expect linear walking routes to get tagged as roundtrip=yes. circular is fine too, as long as it can be applied to routes that are not strictly circular (closed_loop). Such as having a common approach/exit section, crossing itself one or more times, or having a common middle section between two loops. This would still qualify as roundtrip to me, because the 'service' i.e. the waymarking, brings you back to the start. bidirectional waymarking does not a roundtrip make, it just says you can choose to do the hike in both directions. At the same time, if circular just means the same as roundtrip (for walking routes), I would not change current tagging. Lots of work to achieve nothing, not my favorite. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
