Adam Wrote: >It's totally confused me, so in the bit of UK countryside I edit I have added >tons of ways with highway=footway tags through woods, fields etc, when in fact >I am pretty sure they should really be highway=path tags. I realised this a >little while ago, so this thread is timely. > >Do please correct me if I'm still confused as I'm slowly going through the >process of re-tagging them from footway to path.
Hi Adam, As noted on here many times and also reflected on the UK Tagging guidelines page [1] there isn't consensus on whether a countryside 'route' should be tagged as a path or a footway. The key thing is (if it is signed as a public footpath) then tag it with designation=public_footpath. Other than that, I would advise looking at what others are doing in the local area. Here for example, the major paths are tagged as highway=footway, and the minor paths (ones that don't look quite as official but it is clear that people walk on them), tend to be tagged highway=path. There does seem to be a consensus that highway=track is usually wider than highway=path (and is probably wide enough to drive a tractor/4wd down). Regards, Rob [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Tagging_Guidelines
_______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
