2009/8/16 Roy Wallace <waldo000...@gmail.com>: > Whitelegg<nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk> wrote: >> In the UK I would tag such a path as foot=designated;bicycle=permissive; >> and pragmatically highway=footway for the moment, using the >> generally-accepted definition of "footway" as "urban surfaced path" >> (though would prefer highway=path; surface=paved) > > That is not the definition of footway. highway=footway is "For > designated footpaths, i.e. mainly/exclusively for pedestrians."
that's the recent wiki recommendation, but I guess footway is far older than this definition from Jan 08. Don't know how many footways have been in the db till then and how many were added afterwards not corresponding to this definition, but might be lots ;-) cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
