[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - highway=scramble

[Peter Elderson]

Introducing a new highway value to replace rather common existing values can only succeed if the community agrees AND significant data users and renderers confirm they can and will handle it, AND local communities commit to implement it massively. And that is, assuming consensus is reached and documentation and tooling will be altered to reflect and incorporate the new guidelines.

The OSM world does not have the structure to implement such a change, I think. Theoretically, yes; in practice,  no. Feel free to regard this as a challenge, though!

I think adding *=yes tags for special sections could work, if they are set by communities in local/regional projects, properly documented, and offered for implementation as path-modifiers to relevant data consumers. The incentive being that it enables e.g. renderers to show relevant details on specialised maps, and e.g. routers to offer better routes for relevant profiles.

If one community does this and creates, publishes and maintains e.g. a specialised map and router for the region, it's worth it. Then other communites will follow. if not, no harm done, the data is still valid and nothing is broken.

Peter Elderson

> Op 20 sep. 2022 om 20:26 heeft Yves via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> het volgende geschreven:
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> Le 20 septembre 2022 19:04:59 GMT+02:00, martianfreeloader <martianfreeloader at posteo.net> a écrit :
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>> How about this:
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>> - keep highway=path for everything that can be walked by normal people (this means we don't need to re-tag millions of ways)
>> - introduce a new tag highway=demanding path for everything else.
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> I think you forgot to mention we would need to re-tag the hundred of thousand ways falling into your second bullet. That's normal, we tend to forget how easily we manage competing tagging schemes ;-) 
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