I'm beginning personally to think that highway=<footway/cycleway/bridleway> were all a mistake and that highway=path and designation=public_footpath/etc, along with suitable access keys (foot, bicycle, etc) would have been a better starting point - there would certainly be fewer debates where things are currently less than clear. A wiki page I was looking at last night even mentions highway=byway which I can't find anywhere else in the wiki (and it says it implies motorcar=no for restricted byway, though the one I drove last night only said that at the end I came out of and not where I entered, so perhaps that should be motorcar=destination or something, but that's a different discussion).
However, I don't believe we should differentiate urban footpaths(etc) from rural ones other than my means of the surface, width and designation tags, whether you use =path or =footwa/etc. Indeed you can have designated public footpaths that pass through urban areas, so really the only likely difference between rural and urban that I can see are where they are (so are they in a landuse=residential area, for example) and their physical properties (such as surface and width). Ed _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
