state=alternate is used in Belgium and The Netherlands for the cycle and hiking node networks with numbered nodes. It means that there are 2 routes connecting 2 numbered nodes. A 'default'/'preferred'/'normal' one and an alternative one. (shortcut, more pittoresque). This implies that 2 route relations are used for this situation.
Maybe state=alternative would have been a better choice. What do you think? Or should I go to tagging with such a question? (I'm revising all of those (cycle) routes anyway) state=connection is used to indicate that there is an additional connection from (the middle of) a route to either: another (middle of a) route, a numbered node or maybe a city/village center. Polyglot 2011/12/2 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> > 2011/12/2 Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org>: > > Are you sure you're not getting route and way tagging confused here? > > What's wrong with the state=proposed tag on relations already in > > widespread use (by both taggers and data consumers)? > > > Maybe I was exaggerating. Generally I don't see a big difference > between routes and ways, and tags that change the overall meaning of > other tags significantly should be avoided in favour of more > fail-proof solutions. If a tag states that there is a route on the > ground (route=bicycle) then there shouldn't be another tag > state=proposed (or say abandoned=yes) that if set says: no there isn't > actually, there might be a route in a while (maybe) or there has been > a route in the past which isn't there any more. > > On the other hand I can follow your arguments: maybe this is not the > best way to denote this, but it is already in widespread use, current > applications are already aware of it, and routes are special interest > tags so most applications won't evaluate them anyway. > > Currently there is 1344 relations tagged with state and 147124 > relations tagged with type=route (no wonder, as there is no state-tag > proposed to tag a "normal" route). According to the routes page there > is 4 core values: proposed / alternate / temporary / connection, but I > couldn't find a definition what state=alternate might mean. Does > anyone know a definition for this? > > cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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