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

[Ilpo Järvinen]

On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, geow wrote:

> <quote author="johnw"
> The difference between a cycleway, a footway, and a trail can be access
> rules, but mostly its *the built condition of the way* and that *will* vary
> from a 1st world to 3rd would country - and from continent to
> continent.</quote> 
> 
> Therefore proper tags on the individual way would be helpful like surface,
> width, incline, smoothness, sac_scale, mtb:scale etc.

Fair enough, but if the rendering/router/whatever won't differentiate 
based on those tags, it won't help any the map user. Thus your point is 
moot if e.g. the rendering is based solely on surface=* (or actually, any 
particular subset of those "helpful" tags).

> <quote author="johnw"
> Tagging implies the built condition - and assumptions made from that tagging
> affect rendering - which therefore affects routing decisions or user choice
> of ways. </quote> 
> 
> Rendering should never rely on assumptions but on physical values. 

But this footway/path/trail controversy is about not rendering object that 
are physically very much different the same.


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 i.