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

[Richard]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 12:09:44AM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> 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.

I think that "trail" is very vague, look at english witkionary, wagon trail etc
so the word itself would already cause trouble.

highway=footpath may cause less trouble.

Richard