<div>The German-language page is quite a bit clearer - it says use "path" in forests and fields (I think).</div>
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<div>Plus for cycleways that are segregated by line (hmm - this looks like a bodge; at least it's precise).</div>
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<div>The English-language page suffered from enthusiastic editing by people who thought path might lead to footway/cycleway ceasing to be required (unlikely). And the result does need tidying up.</div>
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<div>Richard<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Tom Chance <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@acrewoods.net">tom@acrewoods.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><br>Hi there,<br><br>I'm 100% unclear about the distinction between highway=path and<br>highway=footway.<br>
<br>Paths and footways, which seem to be used for the same sorts of ways by<br>different mappers, both show up differently on the main map. The Mapnik and<br>Tiles@Home stylesheets have quite enough different way styles already,<br>
adding more just makes it even harder for your average user to interpret.<br>So I think it’s important that we define the difference more clearly and<br>apply it more consistently.<br><br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpath" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpath</a><br>
<br>The wiki page above, and the voting page for the proposal, suggest that<br>highway=path should be used where you don’t really think footway,<br>cycleway, bridleway, track and others are suitable. But then it suggests<br>
using highway=path with a subset of tags in place of highway=bridleway,<br>which contradicts the first explanation.<br><br>I can only think of a few circumstances where I wouldn’t just opt for<br>footway – little unofficial paths here and there in parks, across small<br>
bits of grass in towns and in the countryside. But I’ve seen path crop up<br>in lots of situations where the other highway tags would be good enough.<br><br>Which is it to be?<br><br>Regards,<br>Tom<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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