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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