Plus on the existing mapped path you can add informal=yes https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:informal to say it's not a formal path.
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 22:11, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Generally I'd just leave a gap in the highway=footway/path where it > starts/ends, but others might add a path here "tagging for the router" so > that routing works, but if that's done it must have trail_visibility=no ( > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:trail_visibility) which says it's > a pathless path. > > However looking at > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/813749214#map=14/-35.7301/148.5665 it > does look like there is a path already mapped there, so perhaps we need a > better way to say the signage says don't use the existing track, instead go > off track and find your own way, but hard to do when there is a worn path > already though. > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 19:07, Brendan Barnes <brenbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Hoping for some advice please. There's a few sections of the Australian >> Alps Walking Track official route that are specifically "off track", that >> is, there is no formal hiking path and hikers are requested by the National >> Parks signage at both ends of these wilderness sections to navigate from a >> compass bearing or visible landmark, till the track resumes at the other >> side. >> >> I haven't been able to find a standard for "hiking routes" on OSM or the >> Aussie tagging guidelines <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/813749214>. >> >> For one section I tagged Way 813749214 >> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/813749214> as route=hiking and >> nothing else so far, and made it part of the AAWT relation. >> >> Is there a better way to map "off track" hiking routes? Or are there >> other examples of where this occurs? >> >> Thanks, >> ..Brendan >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-au mailing list >> Talk-au@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >> >
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