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How to mark a trail that follows a road

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I have added part of the Trans Canada Trail between Chilliwack and Chilliwack Lake to OSM. I've designated it as Bridleway with foot=yes and bicycle=yes.

I have now come to a stretch of trail that is also a road. How should I mark that the Liumchen Forest Service Road is also the Trans Canada Trail? The road is not always open to vehicles, but it is at present.

asked 20 Apr '14, 17:04

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Additionally to the horse=designated tag you should add a route relation.

Such relations are used to define relationships between different elements, in your case between ways. Add all ways belonging to the Trans Canada Trail to this relation. Then tag the relation as type=route, route=horse and name=Trans Canada Trail. The wiki page contains some more tags you can add if you have more information about this trail.

answered 21 Apr '14, 10:33

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Source code available on GitHub .