So please go ahead and make the definition precise. OSM is a do-ocracy.
Nothing will change by just repeating that OSM is fuzzy on the Belgian
mailing list :-)

regards

m

p.s. no need to tell me you already tried this for "opening hours", I know
that.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:34 PM, André Pirard <a.pir...@ulg.ac.be> wrote:

>  On 2014-12-03 11:49, Marc Gemis wrote :
>
> What's fuzzy about the text "To tag a hiking route you create a relation
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation> with the approbiate tags
> and add all elements (points and ways) of the hiking route to this relation.
>
> Open your eyes: the answer is in the Subject: of your message: "OSM Pff
> several hours working on this..."
> The fact that mappers don't understand what to, do do it wrong and that it
> generates many discussions.
> "add all elements (points and ways) of the hiking route to this relation"
> is obviousness because a relation without elements makes no sense and it's
> useless if the way to do it is not explained precisely, especially the
> roles.
> A precise, instead of fuzzy, definition doesn't take hours to be
> understood and tried, and it doesn't lead to find that JOSM issues warnings
> showing that it understood differently.
>
>  See also Relation:route
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route>." which is on the
> page that you mentioned ?  (spelling mistake copied from the page)
>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:31 AM, André Pirard <a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  On 2014-12-03 07:15, Marc Gemis wrote :
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:30 PM, André Pirard <a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Usually, hiking routes are designed to be walked in a single direction
>>> (the signs are not well visible in the other) and that can be stressed with
>>> oneway=yes.
>>
>>
>> Que ? Are you placing oneway=yes on footpaths ?
>>
>>  No. If "routes are designed to be walked in a single direction",
>> oneway=yes is tagged on route relations and not on the ways nor on the
>> nodes.  That's obvious and explained at the URLs I mentioned.
>>
>>  Since a walking route is something on-top of existing paths, it is
>> wrong to add oneway on the path. One can take the path in the other
>> direction when one does not follow the signposted route. By putting
>> oneway=yes on the path you just block that possibility for a navigation
>> device.
>> This would be the same as putting a oneway=yes on a street, just because
>> a bus route is only going in one direction through that street, while it is
>> a two-way street.
>>
>>  One of the relation pages you mention links to
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route where the roles of the
>> members are explained. Forward & backward are mentioned there.
>>
>>  We know that, but it's the particular usage for hiking routes that's
>> missing and hence fuzzy, which is why Jakka was puzzled.
>>
>>
>>  One can also use http://ra.osmsurround.org/analyzeRelation to verify
>> the correctness of a relation. Fill in the number (4225213 from Andrés
>> example)
>>
>>  regards
>>
>>  m
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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