I was thinking of proposing footpath/bridleway/byway/restricted_byway/permissive as values for designation. This is because they all start with different letters (for ease of use with type-ahead).
I think you can leave highway=bridleway as it is. There's about 8000 of them in Europe (mostly in GB), and it would cause more pain to change them than to leave them as they are. I would add designation=bridleway for those that are official public bridleways (as most of them will be in England&Wales), but I think you'll have to infer this for highway=bridleway in E/W for the foreseeable future. Path doesn't currently render at all in the cycle map layer, presumably pending common agreement on what it's supposed to be used for. So I'd be a bit wary of resetting bridleways to paths until the path/designated situation is resolved amicably. It will probably remain easiest to keep highway=bridleway as a shorthand for (unmade) paths where horse=yes. For footpaths, I'd keep with footway for made-up (good enough to use a pushchair/wheelchair), and switch to path for less good, and cycleway if bicycle=yes - but note that it's far from clear that this will be the majority view. Adding designation=footpath/permissive is probably less contentious. These will render fine in normal mapnik without fussy references to the access tags, but the paths will disappear from the cycle map (for the moment). I think you will have to infer designation=footpath for all existing E&W footways, but put an appropriate health warning against that. Whereas I think you can infer designation=none from highway=path. Richard On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Nick Whitelegg < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm planning to do a wholesale conversion of all my surveyed footpaths, > bridleways etc to use the "designation" (designation=public_footpath, > designation=public_bridleway etc) or "designated" (foot=designated, > horse=designated) etc, and at the same time convert all my > highway=footway/bridleway/byway to highway=path/track/service/residential > (as applicable). > > However before doing this I want to make sure the renderers support them. > e.g. highway=path,designation=public_bridleway OR > highway=path,foot=designated,horse=designated should show as dashed green > lines in Mapnik, just as highway=bridleway is. > > If I contributed some Mapnik rules for this would people be willing to > incorporate them in the main Mapnik renderer? > > Thanks, > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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