In a national park, I would prefer highway=footway for the built-up
and paved ways, e.g. close to the visitor centre, that are often
prepared for wheelchair=yes and attract people for a Sunday stroll.
Any longer, more natural paths for longer hiking I'd tag as
highway=path with tagging as Dan pointed out below.
Warin wrote on 2014-11-04 04:17:
> Bicycle access on a footway I depreciate as the rendering is the same,
> making the bicycle access tag useless.
A tag is not useless just because one particular renderer does not
evaluate it. There might be other renderer and data consumer that
are interested in this tag.
> I'm not aware of the rendering of bridal trails.
highway=bridleway is rendered in the main map style, here is one:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/25798603
Dan S wrote on 2014-11-04 09:19:
One of the most important differences is that for highway=footway, we
know that pedestrians are allowed (unless other tags alter the access
explicitly). With highway=path we can't always assume that pedestrians
are allowed along it. I know there are routing systems that care about
this difference.
As others have said, the choice of which to use is very very fuzzy,
but if you use highway=path please make sure to use some access
tagging to say what kind of traffic may pass along it.
Best
Dan
2014-11-03 22:38 GMT+00:00 Mike Thompson <miketh...@gmail.com>:
I am editing trails in a US National Park of which I have first hand
knowledge. Nearly all trails in this area have been tagged
"highway=footway" although most of them are open equally to foot
traffic and horse traffic. Any reason to leave them as "footways"? The
wiki suggests that "path" is more appropriate. It would be nice to
have consistent data, otherwise it suggests that one trail is
different from the next when if fact they are not.
By the way, might this be an artifact of the defaults in Potlatch?
Thanks,
Mike
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