Path and footway are the same .. to me. When I first joined OSM I was told they had different default permissions to allow UK people to do a short way of tagging those permissions, true or false I don't know. Seemed like a nasty way of doing it to me. In Australia .. the view was taken - country side = path, city = footway. Still nasty.

I disagree that path is being 'actively discouraged'. If it were then https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpath would be marked 'depreciated'.

On 15/03/19 00:24, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote:
Hi

Nothing except the fact people walk along a way is implied by path or footway. The legality or ability to use it is defined with sub/adjective tags, such as width.

The path tag is actively being discouraged. https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richard/diary/20333

OSM-Carto rendering doesn't distinguish it from 'footway' any longer.

Cheers
DaveF

On 12/03/2019 09:17, Devonshire wrote:
Both footway and path infer a way of a certain width suitable for people to use, neither infers any legal right of use as far as I am concerned.

If starting over path is a better word as people outside of OSM have clue what it is but otherwise I see them as interchangeable.

Kevin




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