Proposal:Trailblazed
| The Feature Page for this approved proposal is located at Key:trailblazed |
| trailblazed | |
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| Proposal status: | Abandoned (inactive) |
| Proposed by: | vibrog |
| Tagging: | trailblazed=yes |
| Applies to: | linear |
| Definition: | A way is marked with trailblazes |
| Statistics: |
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| Draft started: | |
| Proposed on: | 2010-06-03 |
| RFC start: | 2010-07-20 |
Rationale
Provide a simple boolean property to classify a trail as being marked, wikipedia:Trail_blazing. This is to provide a simple tagging scheme, not competing with the symbol, colour attributes to Relation:route.
We need a simple tagging scheme, as several trails may not necessarily be part of a given route. Some regions may have a standard convention for marked hiking trails that may or may not be part of a route network, but not a specific route itself.
The proposal intends to replace the simple uses of Proposed features/Marked trail, but not to describe route specific trailblazing of routes, as these can be covered by Relation:route where colour=* and symbol=* can be used to describe route specific trail blazes.
Such simplified tagging will make implementation of consistent looking hiking maps easier.
Applies to
Any road, but especially relevant for highway=path and highway=track.
Usage, Tags and Values
Add trailblazed=yes to indicate that a way is marked using trail blazes.
Marked trails are often indicated on maps with various visual methods:
- Red lines or blue dots (conventions used in Norway).
- Colored lines - Purple markings == purple line on map (convention in USA)
Relevant mentions
Rationale
- marked_trail=* or any other tagging scheme is not established or widely used.
- implementation of marked_trail=* and relation:route:colour is combersome.
- maps implementing the actual colours and shapes may be noisy, and not generic.
- marked_trail="colourname" are insufficient in occurences where specialized trail blazes are made for a given route, which are more suitably mapped as a relation.
Statistics
Numbers for related tagging schemes from osmdoc at the time of writing, (#ways/#relations, dominating country/region):
- marked_trail=*: 1411 / 15, Austria, Slovakia
- trailblazed=yes: 1167 / 0, Slovenia, Norway
- marked_trail=blue: 1076 / 6, Norway
- marked_trail_blue=yes: 1303 / 12, Slovakia, Poland
- osmc:symbol=*: 42 / 1894, France, Germany, Switzerland
- color=*: 72 / 298
- symbol=*: 209 / 3348, Alps (German speaking)
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