Val Kartchner <val...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 06:51 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: >> This is true for roads, but TIGER/massgis did not have hiking trails. >> Around Boston there are starting to be a lot of trails mapped - I keep >> noticing improvements by others. Plus there's parking lots and >> buildings in built-up areas. > > I've wanted to tag the trail heads for the paths I've added. I've > searched for such a tag in the wiki with no luck. It would be like the > tag for parking: An area would indicate parking as well while a point > may indicate parking.
trailhead as a point is an interesting concept, and hard to pin down. It seems to apply to bigger trails more than anything else. Conceptually, what distinguishes something you'd call a trailhead? To me, a trailhead doesn't necessarily have good parking, but somehow stands out as a hike start/end location because the trail that comes to the road is particularly important. If a trailhead is just amenity=parking and information=board, we have a way to represent those. So I think what's really missing is some way to label some highway=footway as more important than others.
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