Broadly agree but why is 'meadow' not a land use? I believe that it is - in rural England at least ... See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadow
Mike Harris > -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 01 December 2009 00:12 > To: Roy Wallace > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Path vs footway vs cycleway vs... > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Roy Wallace > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> What if I map the entire section of grass which is within > the right > >> of way as a polygon with highway=path, area=yes? That's how we > >> represent infinite overlapping criss-crossing > "invisible-paths", like > >> a pedestrian mall. > > > > Not bad. But what makes that area of grass a "path" as > opposed to just > > an area of grass you can walk on (e.g. landuse=meadow or > something + > > foot=yes)? Is there a difference? > > Well, I didn't know landuse tags were routable. And > landuse=meadow sounds to me like a terrible tag ("meadow" is > not a type of usage of land). > > But I think the key difference is that the area of land is > located in a right of way. And a second key difference is > that it's useful for routing purposes. > > > I tend to think "paths" should be limited to elongated > areas, designed > > for or used typically for travel (other than for large > vehicles like > > cars), with usually a constant or slowly varying width. There's > > probably a better definition though. > > I'd say this strip of land qualifies by that definition. > Length, about 80 meters. Width: about 10-15 meters. Used > quite often for pedestrian travel (it's the way you get to > the park, plus school children regularly walk across it on > their way to/from school). The width is fairly constant. > > Frankly, I don't see much point in using an area, unless > you're going to use an area for basically everything. I was > kind of being sarcastic about that. But whatever. > > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
