It may not be "officially recognized" but route=snowmobile is used some [0], and IMHO makes a lot more sense than route=road!
[0] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/route=snowmobile On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought sure that I had raised this question before, but a quick troll > through the archives doesn't seem to show it. > > New York State has an extensive network of designated snowmobile routes, > intended to be long-distance continuous paths. In some cases, they follow > highways, or logging roads on state land. In other cases, the state offers > grants to private landowners to maintain the route, funded out of > snowmobile registration fees. (At least that's my understanding of how the > system works. I'm not a snowmobilist). Except where the route is groomed > alongside a highway (or sometimes on the highway - not all our roads are > open to motor vehicles in winter), other motor vehicles are ordinarily > forbidden. > > These routes are marked with a highway shield, with reassurance markers at > intervals. There are even two tiers of routes: 'corridor' and 'secondary'. > Both are long-distance routes, so they are not appropriate for the name=* > field on a track or path. (Example: Haul Road No. 1 in the Dutch Settlement > State Forest is blazed for both the New York Long Path (route=hiking) and > Snowmobile Corridor Route 7B. A highway shield on a snowmobile route looks > like https://flic.kr/p/nPeMwe. > > We don't (yet?) have a 'route=snowmobile' officially recognized. What I > used recently when a hike (gathering map data for something else) took me > for a while on a snowmobile corridor was 'route=road > network=US:NY:snowmobile:corridor ref=7B'. (If it had been a secondary > route, it would of course have been US:NY:snowmobile:secondary.) I feel a > little uncomfortable about route=road, which seems to be tailored for motor > vehicles, but the tagging would be in all ways the same - type, network, > route, ref are all there, and even most of the roles are possible (there > are link trails, for instance, providing access to nearby highways, or > places where a route splits into a one-way pair). > > Does this sound plausible? > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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