Tag:route=snowmobile

route=snowmobile is used for a signed snowmobile route. It specifies a specific kind of route on the Relation:route.

See also

• Relation:route
• Key:ice_road

Rationale

Snowmobile winter routes are used for recreational activities and or to connect villages and let access nordic areas hardly accessible in other seasons. It can use roads closed during snow season, cross rivers and lakes. In some countries, government and snowmobile clubs manage these roads and install road signalisation with ref symbols. These snowmobile routes consist of multiple different ways (in many cases, but not neccessarily highway=path) or highway=track). In some cases, same way is shared by multiple routes. In almost all cases, every underlying way has different name than the route. The route relation is used to combine all relevant ways into continuous route.

This tag should not be used for informal, private or club routes which are not signed.

Members

Members of the route-relation may have (among others) the following roles:

Way or Node	Role	Recurrence?	Discussion
	(blank)	zero or more	the ways making up the route.
	link	zero or more	a way for the sole purpose of linking this route to the rest of a the network but not a primary part of this route itself.
	shortcut	zero or more	shortcuts
	start	zero or more	entry points

Additional tags

The following tags should be used:

necessary:

• type=route
• route=snowmobile
• Key:snowmobile

optionally:

• Key:ice_road
• Key:toll
• name=* - name
• ref=* - reference number
• operator=*
• network=* - name of the network (local/regional/national)
• description=*
• distance=* - the official length of the complete route
• lanes=* - number of classic xc lanes
• colour=* - HTML colour code
• website=* - url of a website especially with infomation about actual snow conditions