2014-11-04 11:28 GMT+01:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com>:
> 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). > sorry, even if this sounded logical, it might not be the true story ;-) (honestly thought this was it, but by looking up the wiki it seems that the tag has been proposed by 2 guys, CBM e hawke): http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Approved_features/Path cheers, Martin
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