[Talk-GB] On footpaths

[Adam Hoyle]

This is a very interesting discussion. I've been walking and then adding footpaths north of High Wycombe / south of Wendover and surrounding areas for a couple of years, but for various felt-too-much-like-work reasons I've only just joined this mailing list in the last few weeks.

Fwiw I had thought that footway meant an official footpath and path meant an non-official, but obviously well used footpath, not that I used path that often tbh.

I'm glad to hear about the designation tag, as that makes things a bit clearer, but how does designation work with highway=bridleway? Should I be adding both?

Cheers,

Adam



On 4 May 2011, at 14:37, SomeoneElse wrote:

> On 04/05/2011 13:22, Peter Oliver wrote:
>> 
>> • There's an "old" method of tagging ways suitable for pedestrians, and a "new" method. 
> 
> I'd ignore the "new" method as "documented" there.  It was added by a wikifiddler a couple of months ago and bears no resemblance to common usage in the UK.  The huge table that was added also makes the page pretty much illegible.  
> 
> The "new" method is not "wrong", but doesn't add any more information and involves more typing.  Personally, I'll record new footpaths as highway=footway, and if someone already mapped one as highway=path, foot=blah I'll leave it at that.  Life's too short for edit wars.
> 
> As well as echoing what other people have said (e.g. recording designation=public_footpath if there's a sign) what I would add is to see please get mapping!  Don't worry about getting 100% of the detail at the first attempt (if someone spots later that something was actually a bridleway and not just a footpath they can change it).
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
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