[Tagging] highway=footway - Advanced definition: Distinction footway vs path
geow
ksgeo at web.de
Fri Aug 7 06:06:02 UTC 2015
Greg Troxel wrote
> Ilpo Järvinen <
> ilpo.jarvinen@
> > writes:
>
>> It's not just about paved/unpaved. What I mean that there are two kinds
>> of
>> "not paved trails through forest". Those which come with man applied
>> surface, even if we tag them as surface=unpaved (typically
>> surface=fine_gravel to be more precise), which tends to be rather level
>> and easy to walk on and reasonably free from obstacles, and those where
>> the conditions are close to unknown (given unfamiliar terrain), might be
>> easy/ok but might as well require negotiating tricky parts or even
>> backtracking. It's important aspect for (non-computerized) routeplanning
>> to know this difference.
>
> That's fair, but I think it's not really about artificial surface. It's
> about whether someone with some familiarity with hiking in general is
> going to be able to follow the trail without too much trouble. But I'm
> afraid that this is a continuum more than a yes/no sort of thing.
To characterize a path/footway extensively we have - beside surface, width,
incline, smoothness ...
sac_scale
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:sac_scale
mtb:scale
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:mtb:scale
geow
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