[talk-au] Path versus Footway

[osm.talk-au at thorsten.engler.id.au]

Well, the advantage of that approach, ***if it were supported by data consumers***, is that you could just classify your ways using some tag, and then have whatever consequences are of legislation apply to them. If the legislation changes, you just make the change to these default definitions, and they apply everywhere.

 

Whereas if you explicit tag the access (and whatever else) on each way, then:
a) you can’t tell if a certain access value on the way comes from general legislation, or from an explicit sign

b) if the legislation changes, you have to find and change all the ways that are affected, and at that time figure out a) because you can’t just blindly change all tags if there might be explicit signs in place.

 

 

From: Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, 4 February 2022 14:12
To: osm.talk-au at thorsten.engler.id.au
Cc: OSM-Au <talk-au at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Path versus Footway

 

Thanks, both!

 

Yep, get's very messy very quickly :-(

 

Thanks

 

Graeme

 

 

 

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