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

[Pieren]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> > constructed and not maintained or signposted but are only there for
> > the fact that someone uses them.
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> > I inform you that I am using informal=yes for ways that are not
> sounds quite reasonable
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I'm not sure that's a good idea. By doing this, you give the possibility to
trace almost all possible footways around the world even when it's not
really a footway, e.g. shortcuts in parks. Or in nature, any track done by
wild animals will become a footway, informal=yes...

Pieren
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