[OSM-newbies] newbies Digest, Vol 29, Issue 14

[Thomas Meller]

To add something, maybe it's helpful:

I often use highway=track for ways I do hiking on.
They need to be fit for a car, a tractor or something else that cannot travel over single-Trails.
I use highway=unclassified if the way is paved and an interconnect betweeen villages or hamlets or bunches of single buildings as you find them often here in Switzerland.
If unclassified ways are unpaved, they need to be interconnects that lead to somewhere.
Else, they are tracks or I use highway=service if the way is (somewhat)paved and leads to a single Building or ends somewhere at a technical item.
Paved highway=track examples simply end in the void.

I use highway=path if it is a narrow or not-so-narrow single-trail in the countryside or if it's a trampeled way in an agglomeration.
If it's paved, in an agglomeration, or if it's indicated by traffic signs or if it's obviously maintained by an administration and in an agglomeration I use highway=footway.
There still are blade runners, like here: http://osm.org/go/0CcJjEaIf-?layers=0B00FTF
(Footway through quasi-tunnel in a canyon), but they remain exots.

Every once in a while, I wonder if I should use a tracktype=* on a footway or a highway, for I think it's inventor originally had this use in mind. But as in Josm and other tools the intent is obviously different, I always got rid of such thoughts.

This way, I got a professional-looking uncluttered map in my surroundings.
And it's helpful as well.

In the Mountains, things get a lot more complicated, though.

Hope that helps
Thomas

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:14:47 +0100
> Von: "Mike Harris" <mikh43 at googlemail.com>
> An: newbies at openstreetmap.org
> Betreff: Re: [OSM-newbies] newbies Digest, Vol 29, Issue 14

> Belatedly, due to walking footways / paths in Finland ...
> 
> There is a lot on this on the wiki. I have always felt that, despite the
> linguistic inappropriateness, the term 'path' was a bit like the term
> 'road'
> - something to be used only when all else fails, e.g. in the case of
> 'path',
> something that has no surface, no official standing and no explicit
> permission to walk.
> 
> The question of surface can be dealt with either by a surface= tag or a
> tracktype= tag.
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_public_rights_of_way
> 
> The terminology is admittedly odd, but well enshrined in practice and in
> the
> wiki. I suspect that it originated in German-English. The normal
> dictionary
> meaning of 'footway' in British English is, after all, the same as
> 'sidewalk' in American English! .... Which doesn't help at all.
> 
> Mike Harris
> 
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