[Talk-GB] On footpaths
Ed Avis
eda at waniasset.com
Wed May 4 15:39:36 BST 2011
Richard Fairhurst <richard at ...> writes:
>>The general practice in this country is to use footway for paved paths in
>>cities and path for muddier countryside ones (or, perhaps, through city
>>parks).
>
>Um, no it isn't. There is absolutely no consensus for using =path in the
>countryside rather than =footway. I strongly suspect that if you analysed
>the data in the UK countryside, you would find 80% footway, 20% path.
Ah, sorry for making such a rash generalization. What I should have said is that
to the extent path is used instead of footway, it has a sense of being an
unsurfaced path. Footway is used too even in the countryside.
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Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>
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