I thought there was a bit of Weardale with quite a mixture in this bit of map <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.7383&lon=-2.0106&zoom=14&layers=M>you can see highway = footway, path and track, plus an abandoned railway line - one day I am going to sit down and work out a colour scheme that I can see and make an outdoor map for the colour blind!
Graham. On 17 February 2012 16:39, Graham Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 February 2012 15:43, Nick Whitelegg <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> From my understanding, a minimum of ONE to TWO tags are needed: >> >> a) a highway tag. This represents the physical properties of the way, >> e.g. service, track, path (or footway - see below) >> b) if applicable, a designation tag. This represents the RoW status. >> >> I agree - I will normally tag a public footpath as highway = path | > track, designation = public_footpath. I may include a surface=gravel | > paved if it is not a mud path. > I too only use highway=footway for urban footpaths, but you see plenty of > them in the country and I don't usually bother changing them. > I think there is an issue of rendering on the main mapnik stylesheet - If > I remember correctly highway=path renders differently to highway=footway. > I was going to look for a nice example of a mixture in the North Yorkshire > Moors or Weardale, but it looks like someone has changed them to > highway=path, so can't find any just now! > > Graham. > -- > Graham Jones > Hartlepool, UK. > > -- Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK.
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