> On 17 February 2012 15:43, Nick Whitelegg <[email protected] > <mailto:[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.
Agreed. Although I think highway=footway is a more tightly defined kind of duck than highway=path, and says more. Probably it's better for international map consumers (forinners!) for us to still suggest intermediate mappers tag things with little yellow arrows as highway=footway designation=public_footpath than highway=path designation=public_footpath because if that's all the info you have, the former says a little more by implication and the latter compels data consumers to know about crazy UK legislation rather than crazy OSM tagging implications when routing bikes, say. On 17/02/12 16:39, Graham Jones replied to Nick: > 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. FWIW, I tend to use footway as my "looks like it's deliberately made _for_ feet" tag, and path as my "looks like it's merely made _by_ miscellaneous narrow-trail traffic" tag. No particular urban/rural split. I'd still love to see some areas with big outbreaks of highway=path+designation-only, or highway=path+access-tags-only as representations of public paths. Must throw down some overpass-api quadrats around the country to see what people are doing in various areas, before we completely throw highway=path to the Germans. Statistically, would highway=path + designation=public_footpath vs. highway=footway + designation=public_footpath be a worthwhile comparison? Should get around the legacy issue with h=footway. Good that everyone's happy about designation=* and generally focusing on simplicity, anyway. There's hope :) I won't be making any sweeping changes to the main page without putting up drafts for review and announcing them here. -- Andrew Chadwick _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
