[Talk-GB] Freemap (OSM for walkers) - increased coverage

Mark Williams mark.666 at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Jun 10 08:19:26 BST 2009


Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>> For example, for public footpaths are you including all
>> highway=footway/footway=yes ways, or are you using the slowly
>> increasingly used tag that I read about somewhere of
>> designation=public_footpath? 
> 
> As stated in my original message, highway=footway/foot=yes are *not* 
> recognised as public footpaths by the renderer, because there are too many 
> instances of usage of this combination for things which are *not* public 
> footpaths.
> 
> To match a public footpath it has to be either foot=designated and hor
> not equal to designated, or designation=public_footpath.
> 
> Nick

Would it be sensible to also render those with a ref - If it has a ref, 
then it has to be a proper footpath - no?

It's how I've always distinguished them, and I've done quite a lot of 
footpaths :)

Mark





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