Ok I've changed route=mtb to mtb=yes for the trail itself. That fixes the issue I had with the route side of this so that's great.
Using this approach an mtb trail (singletrack) looks the same as a cycle path (paved commuter path). Is this correct? The area I'm looking at first is the Lynton Trails and Mitcham in Adelaide. David ----- Original message ----- From: Steve Bennett <[1][email protected]> To: [2][email protected] Cc: "talk-au" <[3][email protected]> Subject: Re: [talk-au] network and route tags Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:36:31 +1100 Hi David, Where is this, btw? In general: - route=lcn are for bike paths that get you somewhere useful in the local vicinity. (We still debate exactly what LCN means in Australia) - route=mtb are for all mountain bike trails. Don't get hung up on any connotations you might have with a word like "route", as a native English speaker. The benefit to using route=mtb is that they show up specially highlighted on mountain biking map styles, which is useful and appropriate. So, for each trail, I would: - a route relation with route=mtb, and name=xx, and other tags as appropriate - tag the trail itself with highway=path, name=xx, surface=dirt/gravel, and add the route relation Steve On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:33 PM, David Clark <[4][email protected]> wrote: Hi All, I am interested in a small area of trails. There are about 10 trails in a local reserve, all the trails are sign posted and named etc, but there is no actual marked route you just pick which trails you want to use to get to where you want to go. However the tagging used in OSM to me seems wrong. (1) network=lcn Is this correct to use? Should there be other tags associated with this such as network:name=xxxxx etc? (2) route=mtb All the trails are tagged with route=mtb. However there is no marked or recognised physical route associate with these trails. Each trails is short approximately 200m to 500m long so it seems to me the route tag is not applicable. Etiquette: If the above tags are wrong, is it ok to just delete them? These tags have been used in this trail area and 2 others. Thanks, David _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [5][email protected] [6]http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
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