Hi You are dead right - I was talking about paths as in narrow strips of ground for walking on.
I would tag a public footpath as highway=<whatever is appropriate: unclassified|residential|service|track|path>, designation=public_footpath. Graham. On 18 February 2012 10:48, Derick Rethans <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Graham Jones wrote: > > > On the other hand I treat highway=path as just being a statement of fact > - > > 'there is a path here', so it needs some access tags adding to it. In > my > > mind highway = footway is about the same as highway=path; foot=yes (or > > maybe designation=public_footpath, but that is more specific). > > During the Weybridge mapping party, I'd encountered some residential > roads (highway=residential) or service roads (highway=service) that were > also "public footpaths", so I've mapped those as: > > highway=residential > designation=public_footpath > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/150222454 > > Marking those roads as highway=footway or highway=path makes no sense > (to me). > > cheers, > Derick > > -- > http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org > Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php > twitter: @derickr and @xdebug > -- Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK.
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