I have gravitated toward JOSM's preset style highway=footway for foot-only traffic highway=path + foot=designated / bicycle=designated / foot=yes / bicycle=yes as appropriate
I would clarify the phrase as "with a more specific tag as appropriate". From: Greg Corradini Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 4:30 PM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] Tagging Scheme Recommendations: highway=path, footway,trail? I've been looking at a lot of hiking trails on OSM in the Cascade Mountains near Seattle. I've noticed a few different tags in regard to trail GPS traces (highway=path,highway=footway,highway=trail,highway=footpath). The wiki page on "US roads tagging" recommendations only has the following advice to offer about trails: "Ways on which most motor vehicle traffic is either legally of physically prohibitive get highway=path, or a more specific tag as appropriate. This category includes roads that normally function as hiking trails because of barricades opened only occasionally or rarely." I'm wondering if anyone with more OSM trail tagging experience can clarify the last part of the first sentence -- "or a more specific tag as appropriate". Has anyone done a tag count of trail-like values in OSM to get an idea what's being used the most? Does anyone have a opinion about a more specific tag to use for this feature? Thanks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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