(hawke = snowmobile enthusiast, or at least that's the impression he gave, for anyone coming late to this debate)
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com > wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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