Talk:Key:checkpoint

ref

Checkpoints of a hiking route might be numbered. In this case checkpoint:ref=* is useful. --Biff (talk) 05:47, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

role in a hiking relation

I think that it may be useful to set the role of the node or area of a checkpoint to "checkpoint" when adding it to a hiking relation (type=route; route=hiking). --Biff (talk) 05:52, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

checkpoint as member of a relation instead of attribute

Sometimes the same node can be a checkpoint for two or more different courses, for example in Spain "Camino de Santiago" crosses "Camino del Cid" in Burgos. The current implementation cannot manage that situation. I suggest convert checkpoint in a kind of relation with the current attributes at the relation level, and the checkpoint nodes being members of the relation (type=course). Main benefitsː common attributes as course, type and url are created only once; all the checkpoints for a course are handled together, so the editing work is easier; each node can be a checkpoint for several courses. --Robertogeb (talk) 23:11, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

I have created an example relation to illustrate my proposalː https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8305323 . The four first members also contains the tags as in the current definition of checkpoint. To add a new member in the relation is at least four times faster than to include the tags in each node. --Robertogeb (talk) 23:47, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Examples: name vs. name:en

In the examples, `name` and `name:en` don't match. The name in `name:en` isn't the name of the checkpoint but rather the name of the network – it should therefore be in a different tag or attached to a relation.

name=Írott-kő
course=Országos Kéktúra
operator=Magyar Természetbarát Szövetség
name:en=Countrywide Blue Tour

name=John Bull Pub
course=El Camino de Santiago
operator=Junta de Galicia
url=http://www.caminosantiagodecompostela.com/
name:en=Way of St. James

Ongoing discussion about correct naming of hiking checkpoints / tourism=checkpoint

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/name-tags-fur-stempelstellen-von-kommerziellen-tourenanbietern/137087/

tourism=checkpoint
checkpoint=hiking
checkpoint:type=stamp
description=Touringen Stempelstelle
name=Grenzturm Grabenweg
operator=Touringen
operator:website=https://www.touringen.de
ref=300

--Langläufer (talk) 15:46, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

Yes, sometimes the tag tourism=yes is added to such checkpoints. While this is not completely off, it seems more consistent with the general tagging system to use a dedicated feature tag like tourism=checkpoint (despite it is not documented it already has some few uses). This can help being explicit about the nature of the feature, provides a feature tag in one of the "main" keys which are typically present in the import filter rules of downstream tools. --Dieterdreist (talk) 08:52, 31 October 2025 (UTC)