[Tagging] highway=footway - Advanced definition: Distinction footway vs path

[Richard Mann]

No, that isn't a difference. If path is generic then footway is a subset of
path.

It's this idea, that we need a vague generic basket for smaller highways
that has created all this confusion. It amounts to saying: put in a vague
tag and then add others to clarify. That isn't how people use tags in
practice: all tags develop a semantic meaning, the only question is whether
anybody understands what that meaning is!

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
> wrote:

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> sent from a phone
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> > Am 03.08.2015 um 11:07 schrieb Richard Mann <
> richard.mann.westoxford at gmail.com>:
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> > So lets at least have a clear difference between a plain highway=footway
> and a plain highway=path
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> there is, a path is generic while a footway is for pedestrians
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> cheers
> Martin
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