[Tagging] "new" highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

[Ralf Kleineisel]

On 10/23/2010 02:04 PM, Lauri Kytömaa wrote:

> No, not that restrictive. When path was introduced, the equivalence
> was given inother direction: there are globally lots of ways tagged
> as footways and cycleways that have no signposts at all, some of

The wiki says: "highway cycleway For designated cycleways" and "highway
footway For designated footpaths"
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Highway), which is
exactly what I was saying.

The example photos there support this.

For highway=path it says "non-specific or shared-use path", and the
photo shows a forest path or trail which is smaller than a track, not
very well kept, natural surface.

> Changing the definition of highway=footway etc. has never even been
> proposed - it's unnecessary wordplay to claim retrospectively that
> the word "designated" in highway=footway definition was originally
> used for the same as the value "designated" for access tags.

The word "designated" says that there is a sign, doesn't it?