Richard,
I have been doing that in Southwestern parks that I have
visited recently (Mesa Verde, Malpais Notional Monument).
Usually I do the foot trails in the conventional manner,
usually with a name, such as "Far View House Trail." For each point
of interest, I tag it as "archaeological" (that's what's there in
Mesa Verde) and give a name ("Far View House Great Kiva"). I have not
used sign numbers because, so far, there haven't been any. But, at
Mesa Verde I haven't done some of the real popular ones, such as
Cliff Palace, where there might, indeed, be numbered stops. Oh, and
trails to sights in Mesa Verde and other Southwestern parks sometimes
can be longer, like half a mile to a mile. There's usually a pull-off
with substantial parking.
As for using "ref," that changes the nature of that tag. Now
we use "ref" to give the same identification to multiple pieces of a
way, not to give different identities to pieces of a way. I think it
might be better to include the number of each stop in the name, but
I'm certainly open to suggestion.
Charlotte
At 07:49 AM 2/22/2013, you wrote:
[the following includes a message that Adam cc'd to the list that
probably got into the moderator queue]
On 2/22/13 9:03 AM, Adam Schreiber wrote:
On 2/21/13, Richard Welty <[email protected]> wrote:
i look forward to it. is there any particular mapping task i should look
for at Spotsylvania?
Last spring and summer, the Spotsylvania Battlefield was redoing a lot
of their informational signs. The signs were there, but the
information plate was removed. Some are on the map with labels and
some without. I think most that didn't have the info plate weren't
mapped. There's also a trail that cuts through the woods from the
road bend parking at the Mule Shoe Salient to a spring house and some
ruins that used to be closed. I also haven't mapped any of the signed
driving routes outside of the park.
i'll look at the unmapped signs.
also, on a related note, does anyone have any thoughts about good ways
to mark tour stops with existing tags? i'm thinking ref for the actual stop
number, but what in the tourism category would work for the general area
of the stop? usually there's a small parking area or pulloff, a couple of
informational signs, and frequently a trail of some sort, sometimes as long
as 1/4 mile or so (longer trails are generally point-to-point and not really
part of the stop.)
do we need a site relation of some sort, a bag to contain all the bits that
combine to form the stop?
richard
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