Over time I added or updated a lot of trails (foot / cycle / bridle paths). waymarkedtrails.org shows no trails in my area on perhaps because they do not have national trail designation. I am aware of many great hikes in my area which I have been marking with "trailhead", and I would love to see similar suggestions from others.
Searching for trails: on a recent visit to US National Parks, there was not mobile data connection (no live connection to waymarkedtrails). I am armed with powerful OsmAnd app, yet I rarely get meaningful search results for nearby trails. We have a disconnect... The first place I learned about "highway=trailhead" tag was on "US National Park Service Tagging" wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_National_Park_Service_Tagging If NPS thinks they should tag trail heads, why shouldn't we? I do understand that the shortcoming is coming from lack of approved OSM tag. Since OSM has tags for such minute things as pedestrian crossing and railroad crossing, there is parity in marking good/suggested/official places to pickup a hiking trail, whether it is national or very local. I wish I knew how to bring OSM proposal trailhead to maturity: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/trailhead If the tag was official, it would make sense to start adding those tags to existing trails, despite it being rarely used at this time: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/highway=trailhead Many thanks for your feedback. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to osmand+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
