[talk-au] Overgrowing highway=track - change to path?

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Mon Nov 25 11:02:41 UTC 2024




On 25/11/24 09:55, forster at ozonline.com.au wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>:
>
>> I'd consider using abandoned:highway=track + highway=footway/path
>>
>> abandoned:*=*
>> Still visible but fallen into serious disrepair and which could only 
>> be put
>> back into operation with considerable effort
>
> Hi all, I know I am getting close to suggesting tagging for the 
> renderer but I am inclined to keep similar lifecycle tags for those 
> cases where the land manager requests that the track not be rendered 
> and the land manager is working actively to maintain a state of 
> abandoned:
>
> Consider the case of a vehicle track which is impassible to vehicles 
> but traffic-able to walkers. It could be tagged
>
> abandoned:highway=track or
> highway=path
_
_Think you mean, at least this is what I'd be using

abandoned:highway=track and
highway=path

>
> If there are lots of abandoned:highway which are traffic-able by 
> walkers and not access=no, it is just incentive for renderers to 
> render abandoned:
>

Most would take the major tag of highway=track and ignore was:* or 
abandoned:*. Only if the 'lessor' tag of abandoned:* (or disused:* etc) 
existed by itself would someone consider rendering it.
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