On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net> wrote: > Ed Avis wrote: >> The general practice in this country is to use footway for paved paths in >> cities and path for muddier countryside ones (or, perhaps, through city >> parks). > > Um, no it isn't. There is absolutely no consensus for using =path in the > countryside rather than =footway. I strongly suspect that if you analysed > the data in the UK countryside, you would find 80% footway, 20% path.
I don't think there's consensus about using highway=path in the countryside, but nor do I think there's much objection. Nobody's in a rush to change all the plain highway=footway in the countryside, but if you go there and feel highway=path is better/clearer, then nobody's much going to object. Whereas there's quite a lot of grumpiness about using highway=path with access tags in towns, and I'd avoid it. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
