[Talk-GB] Clarifying tagging for footway/cycleway etc

[Alex Mauer]

Richard Mann wrote:
> I'm aware that there's a school of thought that says there should be a lot
> fewer highway tags, with further details in other tags. Can we not rehearse
> that debate (please).
> 
> I'm assuming the lower change option of keeping the diversity of tags (and
> suggesting the addition of a new one between cycleway and footway) precisely
> because renderers typically use this diversity. There is a definite
> difference between a 2m wide path and a 4m wide path, and I think this is a
> distinction that could sensibly be made.

There's a definite difference between the two paths, but nothing says
that a cycle&footway will be 4m wide, nor that a cycleway or footway
will not be 4m wide.  Especially around the world, there is no
consistency in this regard.

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

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