On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > >> An area of grass is - to me - not a path. > > Never? Or just not generally?
I'll rephrase. The following, IMHO, are not sufficient reasons to tag an area of grass as a path: 1) you walk on it; 2) you think it would help routing. Analogy: 1) Just because you sit on something, that doesn't make it a chair; 2) Just because you want others to be recommended to sit on it, that doesn't make it a chair. The only reason I would tag an area of grass as a path is if, when I asked a typical stranger, "hey, is that over there a path?", they replied yes. If I ask "is this a chair?"...you get the picture. In that sense, of course, the photos you linked to are paths. Common sense. >> A path, IMHO, is something >> that exists independently of people walking or not walking on it (i.e. >> usually you can *see* that it resembles a path). > > Usually, or always? Um... so the question is, if you can't see a path, can it still be a path? Answer: No, because otherwise your mapping is not verifiable: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability. > If there were some other tag for me to use (say highway=grass), fine. > But none of the other highway tags are appropriate, and the routing > information needs to be designated somehow. The area of grass I have > in mind exists in a legal right of way. It's not like I'm talking > about cutting through someone's backyard. It's a perfectly legitimate > path of travel. It should provided in walking directions. And that > means having some sort of highway tag. I don't have an easy answer for your problem. I would urge caution, though, in tagging things that aren't verifiable. Actually, I remember trekking recently, using an OSM map, that connected one track to another. The tracks actually *weren't connected* in any way other than through a short stint through dense forest. This is the problem: when you tag in order to have things "provided in walking directions", this can lead you astray. Oh, and if you like highway=grass, use that! _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
