Let's agree to agree! Op vr 4 jan. 2019 om 16:52 schreef Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 8:30 AM Peter Elderson <pelder...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm trying to go for the minimal tagging that supports the most of the > use cases. Which is a node tagged highway=trailhead. It's up to mappers / > communities if and how they will apply and embed that according to local, > regional or country-specific needs or definitions. Or maybe decide it's not > useful in that situation at all. > > If the definition is "a designated or customary place where a trip on > a trail begins or ends," I'm entirely on board. We can add indications > in the Wiki discussion that the decision of what is a trailhead can be > informed by the presence of public parking (whether free or paid is a > local custom), guideposts, notice boards, registers, seating, toilets, > and similar facilities in locales where such things are required or > customary. In a wilderness area, a trailhead may simply be a path > going off into the forest from a road, and enough space on the > roadside to park a few cars. In a developed park, a trailhead may be > an elaborate site such as the Dutch apparently enjoy. But the key > definition is: it's where you start or end your trip on the trail. > > Note that I did not say that it's where the trail starts or ends. A > long trail may have a great many trailheads. Millions of people take > trips on the Appalachian Trail each year. Only a few hundred traverse > it from end to end. When I submitted my trip log from the much less > popular Northville-Placid Trail, I was one of only a couple of > thousand registered 'end-to-enders' in the nearly hundred years of the > trail's existence. So it's not 'where the trail starts or ends," it's > "a customary or designated place to get on or get off." > > What gave me trouble was the original specification, which you were > defending vigourously until quite recently. It had so many exclusions > (must have a stela, must have seating, must have free parking, must > serve multiple trails, and indeed was restricted to trailheads that > simultaneously served foot- and cycleways) that it effectively > excluded nearly everything that I would consider to be a 'trailhead'. > Even as revised, it was a locale-specific definition that would not > have been useful to me at all. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Vr gr Peter Elderson
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