On 6/23/10, Andy Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: >> highway=path wouldn't work if the way is already tagged with >> highway=secondary. >> I was thinking something like highway=secondary, footway=both (a la >> highway=secondary, cycleway=track). >> The alternative would be to have three different ways. >> Neither solution is particularly nice, though. I'm actually hoping >> someone >> will come up with something better :). > > Without attempting to express much of an interest in tagging > discussions, it would be great if you were to use the word "sidewalk" > to describe the paths-along-the-edge-of-roads. The word footway might > well mean the same thing but is used elsewhere in osm, and will lead > to confusion.
I don't get it. Isn't the term footway used in OSM for precisely this sort of thing? It's a way primarily used by pedestrians. Perhaps it's not "designated", but that's only because nothing is "designated" around here. Or do I just not understand what "designated" means? What am I missing? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
