On 12/06/2010 22:37, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > Firstly, while (I believe) you can walk just about anywhere in Scotland, > except during the stalking season, there are a number of waymarked > footpaths, waymarked similarly to England and Wales. I guess these have > no legal relevance but are merely recommended routes. Are these tagged > specifically? I just tagged them "note=Waymarked footpath"
You could tag them as lwn=yes (for 'local walking network'). I've done this for a few paths that seem to be part of a local network of signposted paths. There are also "core paths", which will be designated by local councils, and should be signposted etc. Though I don't think any of these have been created yet (there's been various consultations over the last few years). I think it would be worth having a designation=core_path tag for when these appear. > Secondly, again while you can walk anywhere, I came across a number of > occasions where tracks temporarily end, then restart further on, and in > between is a relatively easy cross country route which you can follow > (unsignposted) where you don't have to scale drystone walls, scramble > through undergrowth etc. AFAIK such "recommended routes" are not > generally put into OSM but need a separate project, but does anyone do > otherwise? If there doesn't appear to be any sort of path on the ground (or signs that other people have walked that way), then I probably wouldn't map them. You could tag them as highway=path, trail_visibility=no But the question is where do you draw this "recommended route"? Should it be the most direct line between the visible paths at each end? It suppose it would be more useful to map what's actually on the ground, ie fields, walls etc, but that isn't always practical. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
