On 15/12/2012 18:44, SomeoneElse wrote:
A couple of weeks ago I spent a very cold day walking up and down part
of the Monsal Trail - essentially from Little Longstone to the A6.
It has been remapped since the tunnels reopened, but is in places a
bit of a hodge-podge, so I propose to standardise it a bit as follows:
o Instead of the mixture of highway=cycleway, highway=path and
highway=track that exists currently, replace with highway=track
throughout (it's all wide enough for the trail maintenance folks' Land
Rovers), but with appropriate access tags (which is I think* foot and
bicycle=yes or permissive, and probably horse=yes or permissive,
vehicle=no) and also surface and lit tags.
I don't know this route; do motorised vehicles have access to all of it?
If not I don't think highway=track should be used throughout. According
to the wiki it is accessible to all vehicles.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Track.
o Where the name tag incorporates both a tunnel name and a trail name
(like with way http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/116465140) move
the tunnel name to some other tag. Although I'm normally sqeamish
about having paths labelled after the most well-known trail that uses
them, in the case of the Monsal Trail I'm tempted to leave the
"name=Monsal Trail" labelling, because that's what the locals would
refer to it as.
Route relations were invented to specifically solve this problem. The
Monsal Trail is a route that uses these ways. Other named routes could
also use them, now or in the future. Putting the route in a relation
avoids naming clashes. See the numerous NCN routes as examples.
o Some of the ways that formed the old Monsal Trail before the tunnels
reopened are still present in OSM (and in some cases far from obvious
on the ground). Where these are tagged as bicycle-appropriate but
clearly aren't I'll remove that tagging;
Again, I don't know the specifics, but just because the route has be
moved does that mean you can't cycle on the old ways?
Cheers
Dave F.
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