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

[Tod Fitch]

> On May 26, 2020, at 9:18 PM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> For me highway=footway and highway=path without any other tags are the same thing. Introducing yet another tag for similar paths/footways may lead to more confused tagging of these things.
> I think the use of sub tags would lead to cleaner tagging.
> 
Therein lies the issue.

For me footway [1] and path [2] are distinctly different. The photos are from a blog post of mine regarding rendering of trail distances [3].

Cheers!
Tod

[1] https://retiredtechie.fitchfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IMG_0420-768x1024.jpg
[2] https://retiredtechie.fitchfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IMG_0425-768x1024.jpg
[3] https://retiredtechie.fitchfamily.org/2020/02/17/distance-between-trail-junctions/
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