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I added the parking area and the beach, and a grass area for playing.
Hopefully it will all get rendered.

Question:
The yellow metal reflective poles which usually go around the parking area just at the start of each foot path. .. these can be removed with a lock and key for park staff to drive over it. How do we tag this?

Also, the metal bar that gets put up at night, to prevent cars from going into the parking lot. .. this one is usually left in the 'open' position. How do we tag this?

Beaches and Tides:
on the yahoo imagery, it shows the beach at eithor high or low tide, depending on the time of day the photo was taken. .. so when were out there at low tide... with the GPS right at the water spot... is this where we draw it? .. or is it at mid-tide.
In some places.. this makes a big difference.

Beaches and parks: .. In many cases.. the beach is actually part of the park.. as the park technically extends out in the water for a certain unknown distance (unless there is a boye out there) my guess would be that proper tagging procedure would be to draw the whole park outline, then draw the beach within the park.

Thats all for now :)
Happy Trails ...
P.S. Great to learn that 'TrailRunner' for the iPod uses OSM :)

Location: Gordon Head, Saanich, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, V8N 5Y1, Canada

Discussion

Comment from alv on 20 November 2008 at 07:08

Combine barriers with suitable access tags and values. For the first one: barrier=bollard + motorcar=private. The open metal bar with motorcar=permissive.

High tide was mentioned somewhere in the wiki as the correct practice and some have discussed how to tag the mean and low tide marks, current best might be
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dwetland

Comment from acrosscanadatrails on 20 November 2008 at 07:50

Thanks... Bollard! right :)
and ya, wetlands, the area im working on isn't wetlands, however i know of a few parks in the area that has it, so i'll make sure to use it. ... so to show where the lake/pond starts and wetlands ends.

Comment from acrosscanadatrails on 20 November 2008 at 08:25

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/G1rk-Pdms6Sevbrld9h4yA
here is the photo of the tidalflat idea.. its at the beach i put in today.

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