I've frequently wanted to map the trails that peter out for exactly the
reason you state.
The choices as a mapper seem wrong:
1) Map the trail : thus encouraging use of a flawed route.
2) Don't map the trail. The casual map reader thinks OSM is missing
something.
Possible solutions include a
On 12/22/14 3:27 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
I've frequently wanted to map the trails that peter out for exactly
the reason you state.
The choices as a mapper seem wrong:
1) Map the trail : thus encouraging use of a flawed route.
2) Don't map the trail. The casual map reader thinks OSM is
access=use_at_your_own_risk
access=two_paths_diverged_in_a_yellow_wood
access=choose_wisely
access=plugh
access=xyzzy
?
-jack
On December 22, 2014 10:06:15 AM EST, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net
wrote:
On 12/22/14 3:27 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
I've frequently wanted to map the
Access tags seem inappropriate to me in this case. I would only tag the
last node as noexit=yes (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:noexit) as
a way of making clear that the trail does indeed end and hasn't just not
been mapped. Leave the rest to the users of the map -- maybe there is
actually
Bryce writes:
I've frequently wanted to map the trails that peter out for
exactly the reason you state.
The choices as a mapper seem wrong:
1) Map the trail : thus encouraging use of a flawed route.
2) Don't map the trail. The casual map reader thinks OSM is missing
something.
Possible
I have what may be a seriously weird question.
I've been trying to clean up my GPS tracks and enter data for the
Northville-Placid Trail in the Adirondacks. In the rare places that the
trail does appear in TIGER, the data are wildly wrong, so I'm rerouting
and retagging as I go. I'm also
On Dec 20, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote:
In at least one place (44.07447,-74.28335, says GPS) the trail crosses an
unnamed tributary of Pine Brook on a beaver dam that is visible in aerial
images. https://flic.kr/p/pFf3TV Hikers who don't quite believe that
On 12/20/2014 11:36 AM, Harald Kliems wrote:
highway=service;service=beaver;pedestrian=permissive (assuming that it's
nice beavers)
I didn't meet the beavers. They were busy. You know beavers. One dam
project after another. :)
More seriously: Does it really matter that the way leads over a
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