On 10/9/22 11:34, Ewen Hill wrote:
Hi Ian,
Firstly, thank you to you and the Munda Biddi (MB) elves for
providing an amazing 1000km cycling route, mainly off-road, sometimes
on ball bearings, other times on sand and the rest mainly on fire
trails and single track. It is an amazing asset and something that I
will cherish completing.
I have been thinking of this with the new Collie township spur and
the other oddities and especially the huts that scatter the route
which apart from one amazing hut that is smack bang in the middle of
the trail, are normally just off the trail on short spurs. Please note
that this route is not set in stone and sections are replaced on a
regular basis.
Where it started with two relationships of MB-Main and
MB-Alternative, I believe a master MB would be preferable containing
all the huts, spurs, winter/summer variations and the main route.
Where there is a spur like Collie (~16km?), an additional
MB-Collie-Spur might be worthwhile.
Having a single master would allow users to easily extract the entire
route and huts in one go and prepare them for their garmin and
whatever GIS software they use.It would also give councils, emergency
services, tourism operators etc. easy access to all of the relevant
data. I don't see the need to maintain any other spur relationships
unless the spur is ~> 2km as it's probably overkill and makes it more
complex to maintain.
The waymarker trails website uses the relation/s to generate a GPX file
and an elevation display .. quite handy.
If all the huts are in there too .. I think it ignores nodes .. other
than guide posts? Possibly it ignore them too.
It would be nice to have, yet more, roles for huts/campsites, toilets,
water and a role for the trails leading to them.. At the moment these
are not included in the relationship instructions .. so lack any support
or organized thinking.
I don't know how easy it is to have all that in a simple GPX file .. the
newer ones do have more features...
Ideally the GPX file would have at least the trail as a contiguous conga
line ... with the 'extras' off to the end ... that used to make
following it easier?
I would think that one file will all the variations (north/south bound,
season winter/summer) would be quite hard for the users to use and the
maintainers to maintain... ???
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