A closer look at some similar relations (thanks, Kevin) indicates others have had the same issue and resolved it in various ways. One person left the water-crossing ways untagged, as I did, another used waterway=river to mark them, another used route=ferry (both incorrect for my situation).
Graeme asks: When people are following the trail & arrive at a lake, would everybody use the same route across the lake, or would you go straight across, while I follow right round the shoreline? It all depends. Sometimes the best route is a straight line, other times not. You might need to put the canoe in the water and just paddle a short distance down one shore to the next portage or carry, not crossing the lake at all. This canoe trail is in a wilderness area where the lake shorelines are generally heavily wooded and the footways practically invisible from the water. Short of following the route in some as-yet-undescribed manner, I'm aware of no way to indicate where one takes the boat out of the water (the take-out point) to begin the portage to the next lake. If these various take-out/put-in nodes were amenable to separate tagging, e.g., if they were named pieces of the route, it would make getting to that place easy. However, in this use case they are not named or designated in any way so when one is traveling a lake section of the route, the crossing of that section would need to be arranged in advance on Basecamp (or some other routing-capable software), with those points in order to not to miss them. In a canoe route that crosses a few lakes in a more or less straight line, follows some streams, has a few highway=footway portions (portages) and ends up back where it started, the untagged ways are not a big problem. But without legitimate and acceptable tagging for its water crossings, I fear the Swan Lake Canoe Trail will not guide an inexperienced canoeist to those important take-out points. That's why I'm asking here for best practices. But maybe my concerns are overblown? Thanks again for the help. I've got some cleaning up to do along the route. I need to remove some of the side trips from the route relation and then test it for completeness with one of the tools mentioned earlier. On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 3:19 PM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 6:37 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick > <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When people are following the trail & arrive at a lake, would everybody > use the same route across the lake, or would you go straight across, while > I follow right round the shoreline? > > > > Assuming different people use different routes, would this effect any > possible routing? > > It depends. Sometimes these ponds are very shallow, and a suggested > route will be shown to keep in deeper water. Sometimes, it's 'find > your own way.' In any case, you certainly will stray from the route - > just try to guide a canoe on a straight line on a windy day! The > really important thing is 'where do I beach the canoe for the next > portage?" > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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