Scenic roads option/suggestion?

[Martin Gregor]

Hi: I posted this on the Editing Help forum but did not get an answer.
Every country has certain roads that are ' scenic'  (called like that in USA). I have not found any option to graphically distinguish them on the map. Any suggestions? If it cannot be done, can such a feature be introduced? Would enhance the quality and driving experiene if such roads would be shown.

There was one suggestion to use a ' scenic'  tag, but I think it would have to be graphic, perhaps a road with green line in the middle. As most of these roads are already mapped, it would be a challenge to change them. Another option would be draw a line along the road, like a cycle path but in green?

Thank you in advance for your ideas, if any.
Martin

[Onkar Shinde]

Is there a tag in openstreetmap for marking roads as 'scenic'?

[Martin Gregor]

There is not. It was a suggestion to create one but it would not accomplish much.

[Hardy]

Many "commercial" road atlases use

- a green shadow for scenic roads or scenic byways

- A yellow-highlighted (caption) background for city/town names with a certain density of cultural POIs

- A framed yellow-highlighte background box for city/town names extremely worth seeing (I think there is a UNESCO scale)

 

I could code this in our "Touring view" map style, that would be the perfect place for that.

 

But if there is no OSM tag, I guess we are bust ... :-(

[Andre]

Indeed Hardy,

Very nice idea, make me think about the old Michelin maps!.
But if it is not in the osm data (as a tag ) nothing can be done by Osmand. So it has to be posted on Osm discussion group (s) (again), hoping a few crazy old men driving in 60 years old cabriolets and having a lot of spare time pick up the idea!

Andre.oid

Op 11 jun. 2013 12:22 schreef "Hardy" <hm.gg...@gmail.com> het volgende:

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[Martin Gregor]

Thank you all for responding. Reading other posts I see that the powers that be are deeply involved in profiles, waypoints, other navigation details and such so I doubt this idea will get implemented. Although this would be a huge improvement of the overall experience with the maps. In one of the posts I did find a reference to 'scenic byways' but they only provided a link to a full Wikipedia article. There is a tag for scenic points, don't see the reason for not having a fully implemented tag for scenic roads as there are thousands of them all over the world.

I guess a saying "We can't see the forest because of the trees" would be appropriate here.
Thanks again,
Martin

[Hardy]

Well, I found this

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:scenic

and this

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Scenery.

But I did neither research if this could cover/satisfy the 2 purposes (scenic highways, scenic places/towns) we talked about, nor how widely this is used in OSM.

 

Has anybody looked at this?

 

The Implemetation itself would not be all too complex,actually....

[Martin Gregor]

I have not seen these. There is an entire article on Wikipedia on US scenic Roads:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Scenic_Byway

I am just an occasional user so I have no idea if someone picked this up but I am surprised that an option to graphically show scenic routes was omitted. A major oversight, in my opinion.

There is this article:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Other_relations_for_nationally_significant_highways_in_the_United_States

When you click on some of the links, e.g. Blue Ridge Parkway ( a major scenic route in eastern US) and view, you will get this map:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=55450

(it takes about 20 sec to come up). The route is shown in blue. Looks like something has been done somewhere