Hi Folks I'm trying to get clear in my head the difference between footway and a path.
I would have thought that a footway would be a cut through between residential streets, paved paths through parks, maybe designated paths next to major roads - distinctly urban in nature. While a path would tend to be a unpaved route (although not always) through fields and moors and mountains - largely rural in nature. However, I've noticed that nearly all the paths out in the countryside seem to be tagged as footways not paths. For example, http://osm.org/go/eu626g_3j-- In the linked location, there is a Footway coming in from the northwest, my Path coming in from the west, a bridge and a Footway leading to the east. The Footway from the northwest is a dirt track running through the same field as my Path coming from the West, to my mind the Northwest Footway should be a Path, the Footway leading east from the bridge is a footway because it's a paved route through a recreation park leading towards Godmanchester. Is this tagging of anything that takes pedestrians as a footway a convention I should be following or is my own definition of the difference between footway and path right and I should be tag as appropriate? Thanks Trevor _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
