... and if the fingers are nailed on a shed, a common practice in the mountains around here? No post? Or the building is the post?
On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 14:07, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 02:03, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> No. The material the guidepost is made from is of lesser importance to >> the fact that it is a 'guidepost'. >> > > That is one viewpoint. It is something indicating the path of a route. > Collect them all under one tag because they all specify that kind > of information, no matter what they look like. It makes overpass > queries easier, etc. That's why trail blazes are > information=trail_blaze and not guidepost. Ooops! > > Another viewpoint is that these things LOOK different even though they > may convey the same information. As waypoints, if you're looking for > a signpost you may discount what looks like graffiti on a distant rock. > > These are signposts. They are signs. On posts. > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5901641 > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4006975 > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6191138 > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6324438 > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3507964 > > What you are describing is not a signpost. It's more of a blaze > with text. If I were insistent upon ramming a square peg into > a round hole, I'd abuse trail_blaze rather than guidepost. > Because THERE IS NO POST. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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