[Talk-ca] Tags for foot paths and bicycle paths

[Pierre Béland]

Tom,

in general we say do not tag for rendering. There are a multitude of OSM 
maps available and each mapping various objects differently.

With OSM there are often many ways to tag and opionion may vary from region to region.

You can find interpretation in wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dfootway

highway=footway is reserved for path used mainly or exclusively for pedestrians. 

Highway=path is for paths not restricted to
 pedestrians.


Pierre 



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>Envoyé le : Jeudi 22 novembre 2012 15h36
>Objet : [Talk-ca] Tags for foot paths and bicycle paths
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>What is the preferred way to tag bicycle paths and foot paths? In my corner of Ottawa I see one path tagged highway=footway, rendered as red dots, and another tagged highway=path, rendered as grey dashes. Both also have foot=yes and bicycle=yes. I ask here instead of newbies in case there is a local convention.
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