<div>Tagging is there to allow people who haven't been there to figure out what is there.</div>
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<div>highway=path just exports the problem to other tags</div>
<div>highway=(whatever the legal designation is) just exports the problem to other tags</div>
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<div>this just makes everything more complicated for everybody</div>
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<div>I say:</div>
<div>highway should encode the basic physical status of the path/road</div>
<div>a new tag, designation should encode legal status, if people want to record this</div>
<div>access should encode topup rules to make routing software work</div>
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<div>Richard</div>