[talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

[John Henderson]

Steve Bennett wrote:

> Call that daunting, wait till someone does the Bicentennial Trail...

Well I also made a start on the BNT earlier as my introduction to 
setting up a route: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=176684

I have no intention of completing that one though :(

> I think it's the right thing to do. If it renders messily, maybe ask
> one of the renderer people their advice. In some cases it would be
> nice to have a hint to the renderer suggesting not to render it in a
> car map for example. But a smart renderer might figure it out anyway.
> 
> The point is, if you were printing out a hiking map, you *would* want
> it rendered in that place...so we want the information there.

Do you have a suggestion on how best to achieve that?

> Not sure what you mean by "get reclassified'.

I anticipate someone changing highway=path to highway=unclassified, for 
example.

John