Hi
I assumed that
highway=footway is a path mainly for pedestrians that may or may not
allow bicycles
highway=cycleway is a path mainly for cyclists that may or may not
allow pedestrians
and highway=path is not saying anything about allowed transport modes
but maybe I am wrong.
Tony
Just a quick thing I noticed ? the main tagging page says not to use
do not use <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway>
highway= <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dfootway>
footway and the preference is
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway> highway=
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpath> path, but
the walking track page mentions that tag regularly ? what is the
differentiation?
From: Andrew Harvey <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, 24 January 2022 10:54 PM
To: talk OSM Australian List <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Forster <[email protected]>; nwastra nwastra
<[email protected]>; Phil Wyatt <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Deletion of walking tracks/paths
On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 at 17:26, Phil Wyatt <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
Hi Folks,
I agree that a good discussion is useful but at the same time the OSM
community needs to understand what a hassle it can be to have these tracks
in OSM and having no, or little, control on how any other app/web interface
may show them.
I actually favour deletion as well but understand that is not the 'OSM way
of doing things'. A full discussion may help the agency, and OSM
contributors understand the issues on both sides.
I also think it would be useful for others to join in the US trails group so
that a more international perspective can be applied to this issue. The
situation can be very different across countries (especially legally).
Inspired by the US trails group work, I thought maybe we can attempt
something localised for Australia.
I started sketching something out at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australia/Walking_Tracks. If
anyone thinks this is a good idea, please feel free to contribute to
that page.
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