Here's a tracker of progress in getting the route relations set up. You might also update this as you add the new segments. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/England_Coast_Path
--- https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?spiregrain [email protected] On Mon, 3 Feb 2025, at 1:12 PM, Andy Townsend wrote: > 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 > >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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