On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Alexandros Papadopoulos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Our recent mountain meanderings created an interesting mapping > situation. At one point we knew very well, from the paper map we had > with us and the GPS unit's breadcrumbs, that the designated trail was > sending us to a junction 1km due north, only to then track back > another 1km due south to a position roughly 300m to our east. > > As we were already nearing the end of the day and were tired, the > prospect of saving ~2km of walking was too good to pass on, so we did > the naughty thing and took a shortcut through the forest. > > I mapped it for two reasons: > > 1. If someone happens to be there and needs to get out of the mountain > quickly, this is the best way to do it. > 2. Now the mapped way is circular, otherwise it would have abruptly > ended in the forest nothingness. > > The right kink shown at http://osm.org/go/Zc93G@e0M- (if it's not live > yet, you should be able to see it by clicking the "+" on the map and > then the "data" overlay) captures my dilemma. Following the marked > trail we would have walked on due NW back to the guidepost, and > rejoined the "Long Path". > > I currently chose to: > 1. break the way in two > 2. clearly mark the "shortcut" section as such (by name) > 3. not using the "foot=designated" tag for the shortcut. > > What's the right thing to do in a case like this? This is useful data > for the map in case of emergency, but I don't want this to turn into a > mainstream trail either! I would have mapped it with no name at all, and with highway=path rather than highway=footway. And indeed no foot=designated - it is not designated at all, so definitely not for foot traffic. -- André Engels, [email protected] _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
