Trailblazed symbols

[Louis-LJ]

🚀 feature request

Description

Good morning all,

this tag proposal has been validated. can you take it into account to display it in osmand during the next update?

Describe the solution you'd like

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/trailblazed%3Dpoles;cairns.

[miramikes]

Hello, I as author of this proposal would have couple of suggestions how to render these tags. I wanted to ask same, but someone was quicker ;) Following link shows rendering of poles besides winter routes. https://en.mapy.cz/zimni?x=15.6739326&y=50.7022212&z=16&source=bs&id=1985564114 I think to render trailblazed=* as offset tiny marks beside path/tracks/roads is good idea trailblazed=yes ... little circle trailblazed=no ... not rendered trailblazed=poles ... little cross x (poles sometimes having cross on top for better visibility) trailblazed=cairns ... little triangle (reminding shape of cairn) trailblazed=symbols ... little rhombus ... not sure about color :( ... red? ... and size

there is also additional tags about visibility of blazing based mainly on distance between blazing trailblazed:visibility=excellent trailblazed:visibility=good trailblazed:visibility=intermediate trailblazed:visibility=bad trailblazed:visibility=horrible trailblazed:visibility=no

I would suggest make three density patterns: quite dense for: trailblazed:visibility=excellent trailblazed:visibility=good normal density for: trailblazed:visibility=intermediate trailblazed:visibility=bad and less dense for: trailblazed:visibility=horrible trailblazed:visibility=no ... this tag is defined as there are still some marks even very rare.

If tag trailblazed:visibility=* is missing ( what will be very probably in most cases) I would stay with middle density of rendering

best regards

mira

[Louis-LJ]

hello mira,

you had a very good idea! I have already started tagging trailblazed = symbols + osmc:symbol = :: blue_dot (if it's a blue dot on the trail)

https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/trailblazed=symbols

I think that with the osm: symbol we can better detail the shape and color of the markup

however, in osmand the osmc: symbol are widely spaced and do not represent all the marks if there is more than one route that takes the same path. someone has already brought up this display problem.

[miramikes]

hello mira,

you had a very good idea! I have already started tagging trailblazed = symbols + osmc:symbol = :: blue_dot (if it's a blue dot on the trail)

https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/trailblazed=symbols

I think that with the osm: symbol we can better detail the shape and color of the markup

Yes that would be probably good idea, but there should be also rendering for case when trailblazed=symbols doesn't have osmc:symbol

however, in osmand the osmc: symbol are widely spaced and do not represent all the marks if there is more than one route that takes the same path. someone has already brought up this display problem.

Yes ... my answer on this was ... Tag it by a stronger symbol if there is one or just simply by trailblazed=yes.

[xmd5a2]

OsmAnd rendering engines doesn't support offsets for icons along path. So this is not possible at that moment.

[Louis-LJ]

otherwise the display of symbols when you click on the path. this implies that all the trails are clickable to display information other than those already displayed on the screen.

trail_visibility the visibility of the path is only represented in osmand if it is bad. good, intermediate, excellent, there is no difference displayed.

assisted_trail, safety_rope, rungs, is not shown. this is very important information for hiking. this could avoid getting into difficulty

[miramikes]

I opened trailblazed=* feature request to not mix too topics together ... this topic is by it's name about trailblazed=symbols only

[miramikes]

Hello, I know nothing about "rendering engines" which OsmAnd using. They are developed in OsmAnd project or they are some sort of 3rd party source? I am just interested if such a feature like offset icons, offset lines and clickable lines will be be possible in foreseeable future or it is rather long therm run? best regards mira