On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Roy Wallace <waldo000...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > highway=path for rough paths > > highway=footway for paved paths > But how would you expect this to solve the current problem? Do you > think it's just a matter of tweaking some wiki definitions? > > Also, with the above proposed definitions, why is there a need to use > different top-level highway=* values just based on the surface? > There's a tag for surface, and it's called surface=*. > I don't think it solves the problem, merely avoids using tag/sets that substantial numbers of people seem to use in different ways. Why the footway/path distinction - because that's what people have done (there's probably more than 100,000 paths in fields and forests in Germany by now). If surface was just paved/unpaved then people wouldn't use the path/footway distinction, but surface has a good five common values, and no obvious boundaries on what values might be used. Richard
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