[Talk-GB] Wiki - United_Kingdom_Tagging_Guidelines

[Nick Whitelegg]

 >>a new page seems to have appeared on the wiki:
>>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Tagging_Guidelines
 
 >>This states a preference for highway=path+foot=designated over
>>highway=footway (etc).
 
>>I don't remember this being discussed or agreed, but my memory could
 >>be failing me.

>I'm with you, I don't remember that debate ever being resolved. So  far as I am concerned, the original tagging using  >highway=footway/cycleway/bridleway etc. remains in place until such a  time as we have a democratic process that >can replace it with a new  schema.
 
>I also happen to loathe the fussy highway=path;foot=designated etc. tagging, which is a separate point.

>Tom

That page is actually based on a very old page I did some time ago which was just called "UK rights of way", or something.

At risk of opening this discussion again ... You do need some way to distinguish between official and unofficial rights of way though. The current tendency seems to use the designation tag to specify this, e.g. designation=public_footpath | public_bridleway | byway etc, and not to worry so much about foot/horse/bicycle etc. This does make things easier. Also the original highway=footway,bridleway etc are rather ambiguous - is it a public fooptath? or a private path? Is it a track or a path? (etc)

In the countryside, the schema whereby you separate out the physical condition from the rights seems to be the least ambiguous and most flexible system. e.g. highway should be unclassified, service, track, path, etc, while designation should indicate official designation (if applicable) then you add extra tags to describe additional permissions e.g. designation=public_footpath; horse=permissive means an official footpath with permissive horse rights, etc.

In the town such things don't matter so much though as long as private paths are designated with "access=private" or similar.

Nick





-----Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote: -----
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 I think the article should probably state existing usage (based on
 tagwatch), rather than promote minority alternatives.
 
 Views?

I'm with you, I don't remember that debate ever being resolved. So far as I am concerned, the original tagging using highway=footway/cycleway/bridleway etc. remains in place until such a time as we have a democratic process that can replace it with a new schema.
 
I also happen to loathe the fussy highway=path;foot=designated etc. tagging, which is a separate point.

Tom

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