Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2010-01-11 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: 2010/1/6 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: I've just set myself up with a login to the OSM wiki. Should I simply refer to the above relation IDs and names in the wiki under Bush Walking and Cycling Tracks? I'd link to the relations, not just mention the ID numbers,

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2010-01-05 Thread John Smith
2010/1/6 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: I've just set myself up with a login to the OSM wiki.  Should I simply refer to the above relation IDs and names in the wiki under Bush Walking and Cycling Tracks? I'd link to the relations, not just mention the ID numbers,

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2010-01-05 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:50 AM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: I'm wanting to reopen this discussion. The context is long-distance walking tracks, and avoiding duplication of the relations covering them (as bits and pieces get added in different geographical areas). I've found a

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2010-01-05 Thread John Henderson
Steve Bennett wrote: I'll be adding the Overland Track in February Enjoy. I first walked that in February, 41 years ago. I grew a beard on that trip and still have it - never shaved since :) John ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

[talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread John Henderson
I've made a start on the daunting task of documenting the Hume and Hovell Walking Track. I've created a relation to cover the route: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=308594 This track goes from Hume's Cooma Cottage just east of Yass all the way to Albury. Quite a bit of the route is on

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 9:29 AM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: I've made a start on the daunting task of documenting the Hume and Hovell Walking Track. Call that daunting, wait till someone does the Bicentennial Trail... I feel it might be silly of me to clutter the map of Comur

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread John Smith
2009/12/13 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: Thoughts/ideas/experience welcome. You add all the ways to a relation and tag the relation as type=route More details on the wiki about route relations: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Walking_Routes

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread John Smith
2009/12/13 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: John Smith wrote: You add all the ways to a relation and tag the relation as type=route Thanks John.  But that's how the relation is set up.  The problem is that the route isn't rendering as an entity in its own right on www.openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread John Smith
Alternatively if these routes have route numbers we could do a custom shield and have the shields show on the map similar to tourist routes. Although I've noticed they've started to use picture based tourist routes, rather than numbered. Through Redcliffe in Qld they have a picture of a manatee

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread John Smith
2009/12/13 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: I have no intention of completing that one though :( It might be could to document such relations on the wiki so that if someone else comes along later finishes it off rather than starting a new relation. I anticipate someone changing highway=path to

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread John Henderson
Ross Scanlon wrote: Should these already be highway=unclassified then. Or if they are 4wd_only=yes then they should be highway=track and tracktype=*. Some maybe. But if I did survey them I'd like to do a thorough job, and the state forest is a real rabbit warren of logging access tracks.

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: It might be could to document such relations on the wiki so that if someone else comes along later finishes it off rather than starting a new relation. I'd had the same thought, although I'd assumed it might be easy to delete a relation after transferring the ways to

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: Alternatively if these routes have route numbers we could do a custom shield and have the shields show on the map similar to tourist routes. Although I've noticed they've started to use picture based tourist routes, rather than numbered. Through Redcliffe in Qld they

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: Taken any photos of it, or Google StreetView images? Take a photo is the next thing to do. It's the two walkers with huge hats at the bottom of: http://www.lands.nsw.gov.au/_media/lands/pdf/recreation/P06_06_0036_H_and_H_Poster_Purple.pdf John

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread Liz
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009, John Henderson wrote: Some patches would need caterpillar drive in the wet. What's the tag for that? :) dry_weather_only=yes ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread John Smith
2009/12/13 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: John Smith wrote: Taken any photos of it, or Google StreetView images? Take a photo is the next thing to do.  It's the two walkers with huge hats at the bottom of:

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: Have you emailed the Dept of Lands about art work? :) Not yet. But I've e-mailed the track manager (who I met on the track several years ago) about mapping it on OSM. His response was luke-warm, and he's yet to respond to my follow-up e-mail. I also intend asking him