[Tagging] path vs footway

Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxford at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 10:39:56 UTC 2014


(hawke = snowmobile enthusiast, or at least that's the impression he gave,
for anyone coming late to this debate)

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
> 2014-11-04 11:28 GMT+01:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
>
>> 2014-11-04 11:17 GMT+01:00 Richard Mann <
>> richard.mann.westoxford at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> The path tag was introduced by people who couldn't deal with
>>> highway=cycleway being shared with pedestrians, and wanted something less
>>> mode-specific than highway=footway and highway=cycleway.
>>>
>>
>>
>> the guy who proposed the tag path is a passionate horse rider and had
>> mainly issues for riders in mind (basically all paths by that time were
>> tagged either highway=cycleway or highway=footway, but most of them hadn't
>> any horse tag attached --- despite the fact that many were accessible for
>> horses --- because few mappers cared of even thought of horses).
>>
>
>
> sorry, even if this sounded logical, it might not be the true story ;-)
> (honestly thought this was it, but by looking up the wiki it seems that the
> tag has been proposed by 2 guys, CBM e hawke):
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Approved_features/Path
>
> cheers,
> Martin
>
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