Antony Walmsley wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using highway=path to describe some ways I entered. They are just > public footpaths across muddy fields with no special surfacing such as > gravel. Just your typical countryside grass covered path across a grass > covered field. > > I've now noticed that these are not showing up on the Mapnik rendering but > they do show up fine in Osmarender. Here is an example location: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.93106&lon=-2.29033&zoom=15&layers=0B00FTF > > I see that others are using highway=footway and these do show in Mapnik. > What should I be using in this situation? I don't want to be forced to > describe something incorrectly just to make it appear in one particular > renderer.
As I understand it, path is a rather recent tag. I used to use highway=footway for want of anything better for the sort of paths you describe, and like you started to use path instead when it became available. But I have reverted to footway because, as you say, Mapnik does not render it. Perhaps the Mapnik people have some objection to path: if not, they are taking a very long time to get around to supporting it. I hope someone with more information will comment. ael _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
