[Talk-GB] Definitive Ways - tagging? (was Re: Talk-GB Digest, Vol 44, Issue 19)

[Nick Whitelegg]

>>If you've got reasonable non-copyright evidence that there's a PROW
>>across the field, use designation=public_footpath. If there's a path
>>that people seem to use, use the highway=path tag (or some other
>>highway tag if you prefer), and maybe a surface tag. You can have a
>>OSM way with just a designation tag; it doesn't have to have a highway
>>tag. 

>And how would I verify that way on the ground then?

What I tend to do is, if there are 2 stiles at either end with waymarks 
on, just draw a straight line between the two. In the absence of other 
evidence, it seems the only logical thing to do.

Having said that, I tag highway=path as well as 
designation=public_footpath in these cases, even if there's no physical 
path on the ground. I do think it's very important to put the designation 
in, or at least foot=permissive, so that paths where there is a definite 
right to walk along (legal or permissive) are clearly separated from those 
which are not.

Nick