[talk-au] Deletion of walking tracks/paths

[iansteer at iinet.net.au]

I strongly prefer highway=path over highway=footway.

 

Most "paths" that get tagged as footways are not signed to say that bicycles
are NOT permitted - hence bicycles ARE permitted.  Hence, if a path is
tagged as a footway, you then need to go and add a 2nd tag "bicycle=yes" -
otherwise routers won't route a bicycle on that path (I've lost count of the
number of times I've had to add that tag.)

 

It is much simpler (and less chance of being incorrect) to simply tag
"highway=path" - and "highway=footway" adds no more information than
"highway=path"  (it just says "it's a path you can walk on" - which is
assumed by when something is tagged as "highway=path").

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