>The highway=footway is IMHO an alias for the more complex highway=path >foot=yes surface=paved etc. construction. I think aliases are >perfectly legitimate constructs when dealing with very common >situations, and furthermore, much easier for newbies to remember and >deal with.
Perhaps, but I feel it's the *editors* that should wrap the complexities of tagging with "human language" equivalents for each, perhaps localised to the user's own country. Nick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk