[Tagging] bridleways / Re: path vs footway

[Tom Pfeifer]

Martin Koppenhoefer wrote on 2014-11-04 14:30:
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> 2014-11-04 14:01 GMT+01:00 Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk <mailto:phil at trigpoint.me.uk>>:
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>     Surely highway=bridleway has been around forever? It was certainly there
>     when I started editing in 2007.
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> surely this was there, but the German sign for a bridleway excludes pedestrians and bicycles and is rarely found in the real life, while ways without any signs aren't that rare, but no-one in Germany would think of calling those "bridleways"

Thanks Martin, I just learned that such a sign exists,
defining the bridleway in the German traffic code (StVO):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Zeichen_238.svg/240px-Zeichen_238.svg.png

Thus what is tagged in my area as bridleway is typically
a forestry track on which a small sign, more like the UK one
in the OSM wiki, by which the forest operator keeps the horses
on particular tracks. I conclude that highway=track with horse=yes/no
would be more appropriate.

I am tempted to add that conclusion to the wiki...

tom