At this point, I settle for just requiring that it's a named location visibly designated as access point for one ore more recreational routes.
So just a node tagged highway=trailhead and name=<Name of the trailhead>. Which node? Well, if it's just the start with a name on a guidepost, use the guidepost node. If it's an information board with the name, use that. If there is a flagpole or a stele or say a statue of the pioneer who walked it first, use that. If there is none of that, use the location which presents itself naturally as a starrting point when you get there. If there is no such location, then it's not a trailhead! Anything else: optional, map and tag as seems appropriate. Op ma 31 dec. 2018 om 16:23 schreef Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com >: > I think tagging trailheads as nodes would work for the great majority of > the trailheads I've seen over the years. The first node of a designated > footway can be tagged as highway=trailhead, a name or other related tagging > added to that, and other amenities such as parking lots, waste bins, > toilets and the like can be tagged as nodes, or in some cases, relations. > Many of the trailheads I've mapped have no other facilities associated with > them, they are merely the beginning of a designated footway or hiking > trail. In the definition in the Wiki, one could make it legal for relations > to be tagged this way in order to accommodate those trailheads that > encompass a range of amenities along with the trailhead itself. > > Dave > > PS: Happy New Year 2019 > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 9:52 PM Tobias Wrede <l...@tobias-wrede.de> wrote: > >> Hi eveyone, >> >> Am 21.12.2018 um 19:55 schrieb Peter Elderson: >> > Well, in Nederland I'm through, got them all. To initiate a rendering >> > on osm-carto the usage should increase by some 500+ (now on 1400+). I >> > need Germany or Italy! >> >> While on vacation I have mapped trail heads in the US pretty much the >> way Kenny has described it. I've never come across the trail head tag so >> far. In the US trail heads I have encountered were often marked as such >> having some signpost giving information on length, difficulty, >> accessibility etc. And often there was a road sign saying "xyz trail >> head". Often there is a single or very few trails departing there and >> each trail only has one or two access points that are called a trail >> head. (disclaimer: I am sure there are other situations but these are >> the ones I have encountered while on vacation). >> >> In Germany, though, the concept of trail head is not so widely used for >> hiking trails. Very often trails are interconnected forming a mesh and >> are accessible from various locations. What we rather have are marked >> parking lots called "Wanderparkplatz", i. e. "hiking parking lot". There >> is even an official traffic sign: >> >> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Zeichen_317_-_Wandererparkplatz,_StVO_1992.svg. >> >> The more fancy ones have a map of the surroundings showing all hiking >> trails of the area, possibly with length, hiking duration and >> difficulty. Often there is a waste bin, sometimes a pickinick table, >> very often it's only a few parking spots off the road crossing a forest. >> These hiking parking lots are very often not dedicated to a certain >> trail, though. Often you find them in places where there are footways >> but no marked or named hiking trails at all. >> >> As far as I see we don't currently designate these hiking parking lots >> as such. They are just amenity parking connected to some paths/hiking >> routes plus possibly having an information board mapped. I wouldn't be >> opposed somehow tagging the Wanderparkplatz designation, not sure a >> highway-tag would be right with the amenity, though. >> >> Having this said there are of course also some trail heads in Germany >> that more fit to what I described for the US or what you might have in >> the Netherlands. But they are the minority here I would say. >> >> all the best for the new Year >> Tobias >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > > -- > Dave Swarthout > Homer, Alaska > Chiang Mai, Thailand > Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Vr gr Peter Elderson
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