2014-11-04 11:17 GMT+01:00 Richard Mann <richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com>:
> The path tag was introduced by people who couldn't deal with > highway=cycleway being shared with pedestrians, and wanted something less > mode-specific than highway=footway and highway=cycleway. > the guy who proposed the tag path is a passionate horse rider and had mainly issues for riders in mind (basically all paths by that time were tagged either highway=cycleway or highway=footway, but most of them hadn't any horse tag attached --- despite the fact that many were accessible for horses --- because few mappers cared of even thought of horses). > > In practice, this use is fairly limited: highway=path has been used far > more for unmade paths in field and forest. > personally I am adding the tag "informal=yes" to paths that are not made on purpose but have emerged by using them. I'm careful to express statements about the dominant global use case for a tag with more than 3 million occurences, because I can only speak for the areas where I am mapping. cheers, Martin
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