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

Marc Gemis marc.gemis at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 08:31:16 UTC 2015


On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 9:58 AM, John Willis <johnw at mac.com> wrote:

> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Aug 7, 2015, at 3:59 PM, geow <ksgeo at web.de> wrote:
> >
> > multi-use-path
>
> Highway=cycle-ped_path
> Done!
> Lets render it with purple dots (blue+red).
>
> Or we could just render it as a sidewalk, as that is what it is. A
> Sidewalk.
>
> Highway=footway+footway=sidewalk.
>
> Which conveniently already exists and is rendered and is used 192k times.
>
> So lets stick with that.
> And depreciate =path.


For Belgium we follow this convention:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Eimai/Belgian_Roads#Paths
It's full of highway=path examples. You'll give us a lot of work if we have
to revisit and retag them all. :-)


regards

m
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