Hi I don't like highway=path very much either - but there are circumstances when I do fall back on using it. Perhaps Ed or someone can advise what a better option would be? Specifically: If I know that a non-road highway is a UK public right of way (PROW) then I tag highway=footway/bridleway/byway as appropriate (the latter for both "restricted byways" and for "byways open to all traffic"). If the way is not a PROW but is discernible on the ground and of a width to allow passage of a vehicle (regardless of whether vehicles are allowed) then I use highway=track (unless something more specific is available such as highway=residential/service/cycleway etc. - following the wiki advice so far as possible, even if it is a bit conflicting at times!) and, in any case, adding tracktype= and/or surface= where possible.
I am left with some ways that are not PROWs but are of "footpath" width, walkable, of unknown legal status, with unknown access= etc. - usually informal routes between A and B that are used as a matter of custom rather than right. As a last resort I have been tagging these highway=path. I don't particularly like doing this but note that the wiki describes this tag as for "non-specific" or "shared use" paths. I would agree with Ed that highway=path is not really needed for shared use paths as these can be tagged differently and tags can be added for foot= / bicycle= etc. But it does seem like a fallback for "non-specific" paths. I would happily consider other suggestions! Mike Harris -----Original Message----- From: Ed Loach [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 22 February 2009 21:36 To: 'Renaud MICHEL'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=doctor or amenity=doctors ? [tagging] Renaud wrote: > I agree. > I am a recent (4 months) contributor to OSM and I sometimes find it > annoying to have multiple, sometimes incompatible, tagging used for > the same purpose. Perhaps someone should come up with a bot to get rid of all those silly highway=path tags? <g,d&rvf> Ed _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
