Hi, Just some thought about it. I map quite often some forest tracks and I usually map them as highway=path. To me "highway=footway" is more for small paths in cities and villages where 4-wheels vehicles cannot go (such as narrow streets), while "highway=path" is a more generic term and more dedicated to inhabited areas. I would definetely map as "highway=footway" a path that is explicitely restricted to pedestrians only for instance (with a signpost).
The page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Paths claims similar stuffs. And a overpass query in the South of Belgium also show that: 1) there are more "path" than "footway" and 2) that "footway" are more common in cities/villages. Cheers, Julien Message: 1 Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 17:39:12 +0200 From: joost schouppe <[email protected]> To: OpenStreetMap Belgium <[email protected]> Subject: [OSM-talk-be] highway=path versus highway=footway Message-ID: <CAO2_g7JhOqgpmPtk=omltxru8ff-9qt5e7_v7br5flmdwvm...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" This probably was asked before, but I'd like current opinion. Do you have a system to choose between the two? Is there some documentation for Belgian preferences? I tend to map as either path or footway when it is not possible to enter with a four wheel drive, or it is obviously not in use as something for cars (restricted access, or single track). Obviously only cycleway if it is clearly marked as such. Then path when it is more of an informal track, so no part of a walking network, just existing because it is used. And footway if it is more formally intended for pedestrian use. -- Joost @ Openstreetmap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/> | Reddit <https://www.reddit.com/u/joostjakob> | Wordpress <https://joostschouppe.wordpress.com/> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-be/attachments/20150922/eb36e2cf/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------
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