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

[Mike Harris]

+1

On 19:59, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>>> 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
>
>
>    

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*/Mike Harris/*
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