<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This is a very interesting discussion. I've been walking and then adding footpaths north of High Wycombe / south of Wendover and surrounding areas for a couple of years, but for various felt-too-much-like-work reasons I've only just joined this mailing list in the last few weeks.<div><br></div><div>Fwiw I had thought that footway meant an official footpath and path meant an non-official, but obviously well used footpath, not that I used path that often tbh.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm glad to hear about the designation tag, as that makes things a bit clearer, but how does designation work with highway=bridleway? Should I be adding both?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 4 May 2011, at 14:37, SomeoneElse wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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On 04/05/2011 13:22, Peter Oliver wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:alpine.LFD.2.02.1105041319250.3238@froglet.home.mavit.org.uk" type="cite">• There's an "old" method of tagging ways suitable for
pedestrians, and a "new" method.
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I'd ignore the "new" method as "documented" there. It was added by
a wikifiddler a couple of months ago and bears no resemblance to
common usage in the UK. The huge table that was added also makes
the page pretty much illegible. <br>
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The "new" method is not "wrong", but doesn't add any more
information and involves more typing.<font face="Default Sans
Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"> Personally,
I'll record new footpaths as highway=footway, and if someone
already mapped one as highway=path, foot=blah I'll leave it at
that. Life's too short for edit wars.<br>
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</font>As well as echoing what other people have said (e.g.
recording <font face="Default Sans
Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">designation=public_footpath
if there's a sign) what I would add is to see please get mapping!
Don't worry about getting 100% of the detail at the first attempt
(if someone spots later that something was actually a bridleway
and not just a footpath they can change it).<br>
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</font>Cheers,<br>
Andy<br>
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