[talk-au] Deletion of walking tracks/paths

[forster at ozonline.com.au]

Hi

I assumed that
highway=footway is a path mainly for pedestrians that may or may not  
allow bicycles

highway=cycleway is a path mainly for cyclists that may or may not  
allow pedestrians

and highway=path is not saying anything about allowed transport modes

but maybe I am wrong.

Tony


> 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?
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> 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
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> On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 at 17:26, Phil Wyatt <phil at wyatt-family.com   
> <mailto:phil at wyatt-family.com> > wrote:
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> Hi Folks,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> Inspired by the US trails group work, I thought maybe we can attempt  
>  something localised for Australia.
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> 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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