Hi all,
I've noticed that a few people up in parts of North Yorkshire have been
adding "information=guidepost" for public footpath / bridleway signs
such as https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5570785235 . At first glance
this seemed odd - your typical GB public footpath sign doesn't have
anything like the information on it that the example at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:information%3Dguidepost does
(just the words "public footpath"). However, it turns out I was wrong -
in this bit of the Howardian Hills someone's clearly got more cash to
spend on things and these really are guideposts with destinations, long
distance path memberships and designation information on them (for
example, that example says "public bridleway", "Ebor Way" and a western
destination on it).
The next question then is what would be appropriate to tag a public
footpath sign which doesn't have other information on it?
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4853498733 is one of those - that
says "public footpath" with no other information. Over on the OSM GB
organisation's loomio site
https://www.loomio.org/d/pviAOkGR/challenge-footpaths/10 EdLoach
suggested https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:guidepost%3Dsimple
(currently only 57 uses worldwide at
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/guidepost#values , but it's a
start). Also see
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/keys/guidepost#values - almost
nothing at all there yet.
The OSM wiki (and tag use) seems somewhat unclear.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key%3Aguidepost suggests
"guide_type" (almost unused worldwide -
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=guide_type ). Also some of
the examples on the wiki page look like the much more widely used
"route_marker" or "trail__blaze"
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/keys/information#values /
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/information#values .
Is anyone mapping public footpath signs that are just public footpath
signs, and if so, as what?
Obviously I have an ulterior motive here - currently I render guideposts
differently from e.g. route markers at
https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=17&lat=-24.99939&lon=135.17714
, so I'd like to find a way of excluding public footpath signs from
"proper guideposts" and route markers, which needs some sort of
different tagging on them (but exactly what tags I'm not too bothered
about). I bet if anyone reading this just added the public footpath
signs they saw _today_ it'd swamp any other tag usage for that feature
in the UK :)
Cheers,
Andy
PS - A quick note on why the route_marker icon at
https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=20&lat=-24.997938&lon=135.173467
is purple rather than normal information brown - the idea eventually is
to add the route name(s) that a route marker is a member of to the route
marker, but that'd need me to make a change to osm2pgsql and that
frankly is not going to happen while the weather is like this!
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