On 09/12/19 19:43, Peter Elderson wrote:
Jmapb <jm...@gmx.com <mailto:jm...@gmx.com>>:
On 12/8/2019 6:44 PM, Peter Elderson wrote:
>
> Could you envision a node passed by two hikes, and being a
checkpoint
> for the one and nothing special for the other?
Camino de Santiago ( https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/153968 )
comes to mind. Hikers doing the whole route carry passports that are
stamped at checkpoints along the way, to document completion of the
route. Hikers not attempting to complete the whole route probably
wouldn't have the passport and wouldn't bother with the checkpoints.
I have walked many "Camino" sections in Italy. The "checkpoints" are
just stamps, you can get them at many shops, hotels, restaurants,
tourist info points and the like on the way. They will stamp anything
for anyone who asks. There is no register, nothing is checked. I would
not call them checkpoints and I would certainly not attempt to map
them. In Nederland, I don't know about shops, hotels and restaurants.
On the other hand, there are special places like convents and some
churches where pilgrims can stay the night and eat very cheap or free.
They would check and maybe register the pilgrim's passport, I guess.
These points would merit rendering and routing, I think. I don't know
if it helps to tie it to a particular route though. It's a POI passed
by one or more routes. The map can show it, routers can use it and it
can be exported in a gpx or kml.
It's one of those things I would not map unless I can be reasonably
sure it will be maintained and used for actual rendering, routing
and/or export.
There are checkpoints that are used for safety. These are checked by
search and rescue services when people are overdue, or tracks get closed
by fires or very bad weather. They are not tourist 'look at me, this
what I have done' type things... but thing to prevent death.
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