<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 5 May 2020, 13:26 Martin Wynne, <<a href="mailto:martin@templot.com">martin@templot.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Is a "public right of way" a highway?<br>
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I suggest not. It's a legal construct, similar to a boundary line.<br>
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Perhaps it should be mapped as a separate way, sometimes sharing nodes <br>
with a physical highway, sometimes not.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In English/Welsh law a highway is a right of passage, so a public right of way is a highway by definition. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For OSM purposes? I don't know, but I've always assumed so. As discussed for practical reasons I wouldn't tag a completely inaccessible prow as a highway but I've never considered a physically worn path on the ground a requirement for being a highway=footway, bridleway etc. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Adam</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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