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

Tod Fitch tod at fitchfamily.org
Wed May 27 14:26:53 UTC 2020



> On May 27, 2020, at 6:42 AM, Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com> wrote:
> This does not describe the situation
> highway=footway is "urban", implies foot=designated, usage can be expanded with tags like bicycle=yes|permisive||designated to describe mid-use ways
> 
> highway=cycleway implies bicycle=designated, usage can be widened with tags like foot=yes|permissive|designated to describe mixed-use ways (this
> 
> path is being used for two completly different  things:
> (a) a "hiking" path, mostly in non-urban situations, including mountain hiking
> (b) with the additional tagging foot=designated plus bicycle=designated plus segregated=yes|no as a mixed use foot-cycle-way
> 

And there is (c) a non-urban trail with legal access for bicycles but in practice only usable with a mountain bike but lacking a MTB scale tag as the hiker, like me, who mapped it has no clue what MTB scale to put on it.


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