>>> 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 ;-)
>Sure, but perpetuating deprecated definitions via the mailing list >without specifically indicating them as such (deprecated) is IMHO >damaging. My comment on "footway" meaning "urban surfaced path" was based on many recent mailing list discussions which seem to indicate that there was a tendency to use "footway" for urban paths and "path" for mud/dirt/rock paths in the countryside. Based on that perceived tendency, plus my own preferences, that's what I've been doing recently. Nick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
