[talk-au] Deletion of walking tracks/paths

[Phil Wyatt]

Just a quick thing I noticed – the main tagging page says not to use do not use  <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway> highway= <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dfootway> footway and the preference is  <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway> highway= <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpath> path, but the walking track page mentions that tag regularly – what is the differentiation?

 

 

From: Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> 
Sent: Monday, 24 January 2022 10:54 PM
To: talk OSM Australian List <Talk-au at openstreetmap.org>
Cc: Tony Forster <forster at ozonline.com.au>; nwastra nwastra <nwastra at gmail.com>; Phil Wyatt <phil at wyatt-family.com>
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Deletion of walking tracks/paths

 

 

 

On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 at 17:26, Phil Wyatt <phil at wyatt-family.com <mailto:phil at wyatt-family.com> > wrote:

Hi Folks,

I agree that a good discussion is useful but at the same time the OSM
community needs to understand what a hassle it can be to have these tracks
in OSM and having no, or little, control on how any other app/web interface
may show them.

I actually favour deletion as well but understand that is not the 'OSM way
of doing things'. A full discussion may help the agency, and OSM
contributors understand the issues on both sides.

I also think it would be useful for others to join in the US trails group so
that a more international perspective can be applied to this issue. The
situation can be very different across countries (especially legally).

 

Inspired by the US trails group work, I thought maybe we can attempt something localised for Australia.

 

I started sketching something out at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australia/Walking_Tracks. If anyone thinks this is a good idea, please feel free to contribute to that page.

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