[Tagging] Reviving the path discussion - the increasing importance of trails in OSM

[Mateusz Konieczny]

https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/CARTOGRAPHY.md#general-purpose

It is one of goals of this map style.


May 22, 2020, 16:17 by pelderson at gmail.com:

> Sounds like rendering for the mapper...don't know if that's as bad as the other way around....
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> Op vr 22 mei 2020 om 16:07 schreef Andrew Harvey <> andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> >:
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>> On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 22:33, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <>> tagging at openstreetmap.org>> > wrote:
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>>> May 22, 2020, 13:55 by >>> andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>>> :
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>>>> On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 21:44, Daniel Westergren <>>>> westis at gmail.com>>>> > wrote:
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>>>>> Yeah, I guess there's no way to force the user to add a surface tag when adding a highway=path. We could also use analyzing tools to look for recent edits with only highway=path and comment to users about the use of surface etc.
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>>>> I think that's a step too far, while it's nice for people to add extra attributes and we should try to make it easier for mappers to discover what tags there are and use them, there is no obligation to, the same way a building=yes on a node is much appreciated even if it's not traced out in a way and has the building type mapped, a lone highway=path is still useful alone.
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>>> Improving editors would be a better step, such extreme nagging is more likely to discourage people.
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>> Agreed, though I think the biggest driver for the casual mapper would be to close the feedback loop so they can actually see this change. ie. making the default OSM style render width and surface.
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