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

[Ilpo Järvinen]

On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Warin wrote:
> 
> > On 28/08/2015 9:47 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> > >
> > > My suggestion is to not assume any access defaults but rather 
> > > explicitly tag everything, and surface as well. Everything you assume 
> > > will be questioned and taken from you in a few years ;-) what is there 
> > > explicitly will likely remain...
> >
> > Unless highway=trail can be made exclusive of any other tag (including their
> > sub tags) then it will only add to confusion and abuse of its use.
> > As 'footway' can be sub tagged to any thing I can conceive of at a 'trail' I
> > see little hope of this occurring.
> 
> For those who would want to have a separate tag for 'trails'

I mean there a separate highway=* value, just in case somebody might 
misunderstand what I meant.


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