IMO highway is fine. In Britain, at least, the term highway includes
much more than just roads as I found out to my cost when I advised a
client that his extension would not need planning permission, not
being close to a highway. I was thinking highway=road but
highway=footway is also true in British law and he did need
permission :-(
From: "Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 8 May 2008 11:56:25 BDT
To: "'Robin Paulson'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'Erik Johansson'"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] golf course marking
Robin Paulson wrote:
...
yes, it is a strange choice. it leads to irrationalities like
highway=footway and highway=cycleway
why we're not using right_of_way=motorway|primary|cycleway|footway|
and so on, i don't know
It's entirely my fault that we have highway=
The reasoning at the time was that I wanted to group similar
features and
where possible use "way" at the end as that was the common
denominator for
all of the generic "types" I was thinking about. If I had picked
"roadway" I
felt using it to describe a footpath might be less than intuitive for
instance. So highway it became (very much thinking of highways and
byways at
the time).
As Richard has pointed out, the Right of Way over a particular
route is an
entirely different matter and one that is best avoided unless we
truly do
know the legal situation.
Cheers
Andy
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