On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:27 AM, James Ewen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Dave F. <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 11/05/2011 12:12, David Groom wrote: > >> AIUI, the convention is it needs to be signed on the ground to be official >> enough to be added to OSM. A route named & published only in a walking book, >> for example, would not qualify. > > I guess I need to go rip out a couple hundred km of trails that I have > added to the OSM database because not a single one of them have a sign > on them. > > Most of the walking and bicycle trails in the city don't even have > signs on them, let alone the ones I have tracked and added in the back > country. We have paved bicycle trails with no signage... those > wouldn't pass the test.
No need to undo your good work, James. The existence of a trail is enough groundtruth to earn a place in OpenStreetMap. While a signpost is ideal for adding name= to a trail, even an unofficial name would fit as loc_name= _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
