On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 13:06 +0100, Marc Gemis wrote: > In Belgium and The Netherlands we have tagged all the regional walking > networks as foot. With this system of walking networks it is possible > to plan walks as short as 2-3 km and and long as a few hundred > kilometers. For me the short walks are no hikes, but that might be the > wrong interpretation. > > > We had some discussion about this (foot vs hiking) a few years ago. We > decided to stay with foot because that was used in The Netherlands and > Germany. And because some of those networks cross the border, it did > look appropriate to change it only in Belgium. > In UK English, the language of OSM, hike has extreme connotations. Hiking implies a route over extreme ground and a forced high pace. If I was to describe one of my ramblers walks as 'a hike' I would not get many takers.
US English uses the term hike to describe a walk in the countryside, which is the usage I suspect Fly is using. Having done a Overpass Turbo query on route=foot locally, it returns the Shropshire Way and Severn Way. I would not use the term hike to describe either, route=foot is absolutely appropriate. Phil (trigpoint) _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
