Hi
There was some discussion last month about hiking tagging. And I was just asked again about some inconsistencies of the HikingNetwork wiki page https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Switzerland/HikingNetwork
I propose some changes to it. First and foremost I would like to clarify that the network structure is important. That means no way should be part of multiple lwn relations. And that relations obviously can end on unnamed guide posts. Nothing we can do if a there is a junction but the guidepost has no name. This was also discussed with a few mappers at the Zurich meetup last year and seems uncontentious.
I would also suggest to remove the text "The following section is a proposal. Comments are welcome" as it is there for more than 10 years now.
Adapted text for section "Hiking path network"
===Recommended tagging===
The hiking network is different from hiking routes discussed above: As a network, only routes between junctions are linear and therefore, each route between two junctions (the “edges” of the network) gets its own route relation. Each part of the network is then part of only one relation. Each junction (node of the network) should have a guidepost, as we only map signposted routes.
===Guideposts===
Along the hiking routes you can find guideposts. Some of those guideposts have a small white signboard with the name of the place (usually open fields names) and the elevation over mean sea level. They should be tagged as described on tag:information=guidepost.
[then follows the table, and a bit further down:]
===Routes===
A way between two junctions in the network is tagged as a usual hiking relation with network=lwn.
I would also like to introduce a Required? column to the tables, like it is often done on other wiki pages.
Tag Required? tourism=information required information=guidepost required name=* optional if there is one ele=* optional if there is one hiking=yes optional image=* optional
Tag Required? type=route required route=hiking required network=lwn required symbol=* optional osmc:symbol=* optional operator=* optional osmc:name=* optional
The route name tag:
That seems a bit disputed. I feel this tag was forced by a particular renderer, the "OSMC Reit- und Wanderkarte". There are two tags, name= and osmc:name and I see that the name tag was added to the wiki page in 2018, which I seem to have missed. I would like to remove name again, but add from= and to= to the table, hopefully a better way to help mappers to identify relations.
Michael