Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
(given that footway, cycleway and bridleway are all synonyms of highway=path designated=foo, dedicated=foo, official=foo, etc.).
Ralf Kleineisel wrote:
Footway on the other hand is for designated pedestrian ways, i.e. in many countries a blue sign with pedestrians on it.
No, not that restrictive. When path was introduced, the equivalence was given inother direction: there are globally lots of ways tagged as footways and cycleways that have no signposts at all, some of which were even drawn before anyone had ever visioned highway=path. Changing the definition of highway=footway etc. has never even been proposed - it's unnecessary wordplay to claim retrospectively that the word "designated" in highway=footway definition was originally used for the same as the value "designated" for access tags. Yet some translated guidelines have taken that view. Any highway=path + foot=designated is for practical purposes equal to a highway=footway - "there's a way for walking" (unless it has other access tags, but a footway could have them, too.) -- Alv _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
