On 03/02/2025 12:42, Chris Smith wrote:
Easy enough for me to add a footpath, but it made me wonder how the
whole of this Path will become a route, appropriately labelled. Can
someone enlighten me?
Hello,
Log distance paths tend to be added to OSM as route relations. This one
is quite long, and is split into a separate relation for each piece.
Here's the "superroute" relation:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3971851 (that's an OSM relation
containing other relations).
Taking one of those as an example (one that I visited a couple of weeks
ago): https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/16312445 , that in turn is
made up of individual sections of footpath such as
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1352774195 . Adjacent to that is a
guidepost https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/12496741581
https://map.atownsend.org.uk/tmp/256804.jpg that I've also added to that
relation.
Generally speaking, you'll want to add your new bit of path to the local
bit of England Coast Path relation. That might be
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/18268797 or perhaps
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/17245344 to the north. In the iD
editor there's an "add to relation" option below the tags section at the
bottom left of the screen - the tricky bit is to make sure that you're
adding to your local section and not the "superroute".
The canonical visualiser for these sorts of things is Waymarked Trails
https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/#?map=9.0/53.5451/-3.066 - you can
see the bits of ECP that it knows about labelled as such.
In addition to that I also show them on maps such as
https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#21/54.09243/-0.17708 and
the equivalent vector map
https://map.atownsend.org.uk/vector/index.html#20/54.0924304/-0.1770821
also shows which route each guidepost is part of - the southern one is
the England Coast Path, the northern one is for a couple of cycle routes.
Best Regards,
Andy
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