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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

May 28, 2020, 22:05 by kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com:

> So I return to, 'what's the minimalist set of attributes that we can
> use to guide a data consumer, and conversely, the minimum set of tags
> that a data consumer needs to recognize?' Specifying every attribute
> in excruciating detail is fine if you're trying to map your area
> artistically and say as much as possible; it shouldn't be necessary
> for a mapper to do so, or for a data consumer to understand
> everything, in order to get reasonable approximate results.
>
Depends on what you want to achieve. 

surface=* goes a long way toward distinguishing it,
but there are still unpaved park footways in city centers 
and paved path inaccessible to many.

surface=* + wheelchair=no where applicable seems 
to cover basically everything of what I mapped -
except unpaved paths in parks.
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