Hi, I'd like to get advice about toponymy in the context of hiking paths.
When hiking, I often encounter short technical passages which have a name painted on the rock. In French, the name almost always begin with "Pas de ..." but I'm not sure if there is a good translation for "pas" in English [1]. Such portions of the path often consist in passing a small cliff or an exposed ridge, they may be equipped with chains or cables. I think it is good to have these passages in OSM because they can be considered as a mark or a step along the hiking route. My problem is that I can't find a proper tagging scheme. I could put the name on the path segment [2] but that would often conflict with the name of the path (if any) [3]. Also, it doesn't convey the idea of a step along the path. Another solution is to use the place=locality [4] but that would mean that a named place exists with a path going though. Here, I think the name is for the technical passage (part of the path), not the place. There would be no name if there were no path. Moreover, such a place name is mostly relevant to hikers whereas place=locality is not specific. Eventually, I used a custom tag for my latest edit: hiking=passage [5] but I'm not sure this can make sense for other mappers and I'm looking for feedback on this. [1]: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1978431 [2]: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/85315111 [3]: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/633030063 [4]: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1105440189 [5]: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1200975380 Regards -- Gilles Bassière - Web/GIS software engineer http://gbassiere.free.fr/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
