<div dir="ltr">Fair points, so I agree to revert back the previous guidelines. I see highway=path used a lot for unsignposted bush walking track (single person wide, definitely not wide enough for vehicles), though for something that's unpaved then highway=path and highway=footway mean the same thing to me.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 16:48, Andrew Davidson <<a href="mailto:theswavu@gmail.com">theswavu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 4:30 PM Andrew Harvey <<a href="mailto:andrew.harvey4@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.harvey4@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm mildly for reverting, although I'm happy to hear out arguments either way and be proven wrong.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Up until May this year path meant an unsealed "track" that was too small for vehicles (or at least that's how mappers were using them) now the guidelines tell you to use them for all shared paths. I don't like this because:</div><div><ol><li>The whole path tagging concept is not universally admired: <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Path_controversy" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Path_controversy</a></li><li>It makes Richard unhappy <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richard/diary/20333" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richard/diary/20333</a></li><li>Bare highway=path tags are meaningless</li><li>Footway/bicycle=yes Cycleway/foot=yes tagging allows you differentiate between shared paths that are old 1.25m wide footpaths and 3m wide cycle paths. Switching to a path based tagging method throws this information out [1].</li></ol><div>By the way, there is no right and wrong in tagging; only more or less useful</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] width=* is only going to make Richard more unhappy.</div></div></div>
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