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> Am 03.08.2015 um 12:30 schrieb johnw <[email protected]>: > > From all the history, it looks like path was made to show some kind of mixed > use way that footway was not good at - for mapping useful but unpaved and > irregular pathways - trails, tracks, etc. A guy was pushing for this as > useful for horses, I think. > > Then Track showed up, taking a lot of the path’s job for things like farming > roads, fire roads, and other mixed use roads. > > Also, there’s bridleway, paths designated for horses. And cycleway too. I > don’t know when they showed up, but it seems later than path. footway, bridleway, cycleway were all already there by the time path was introduced. btw also track, but this is a different story as tracks are meant to be used by utility vehicles. before the introduction of path a lot of fine detail of mixed use ways was lost because of the then valid dogma to classify according to the "highest"'use (foot, bike, horse), resulting - as there is no natural order among these - in arbitrary decisions based on the personal preference of the mapper for a certain means of transport. cheers Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
