Hi
My thoughts as follows:
This is really going to be something for a UK specific rendering. It is
actually quite useful as a QC exercise to rendering footways/paths with and
without a designation tag. Something I do on my own Garmin map. The
presumption on my part being that ideally we would like to see all
footway/bridleways etc have their appropriate designation tag.
I think this is really something for a specialist site. “waymarkedtrails” does
this very well.
I would not be in favour of this. It would be very subjective and would vary
throughout the year for many footpaths and depend on who and how many people
had walked it recently.
I guess if the new rendering for footway throws up significant problems there
will be more interest in a UK website.
Regards
Dudley
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From: Rob Nickerson
Sent: Sunday, 16 August 2015 18:27
To: Talk-GB
Hi all,
Given that paths and footways are now rendered the same way in the default OSM
style I wonder whether it is time to look at how the map can provide better
information.
For rural mappers tagging a path/footway as unpaved surface results in it
having less prominence on the map. As most major public rights of way are
unpaved this makes these paths harder to view on the default OSM map.
Some possible changes:
1. Render all paths/footways that are tagged as designation=public_footpath (or
other RoW) more prominently.
2. Render those paths/footways that make up a long distance walking route more
prominent (relation data).
3. Render based on another tag such as trail visibility [1] or maybe we need a
brand new tag to indicate path dominance (like we have
motorway/trunk/primary/etc for roads).
What are people's thoughts on this? The second has a request on github already
[2].
[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:trail_visibility
[2] https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1750
Regards,
Rob
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