[Talk-GB] On footpaths

[MarkS]

On 04/05/2011 14:13, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> Hello Peter,
>
> I would say the most important thing with official rights of way is to
> tag them with designation=public_footpath, public_bridleway,
> public_byway or restricted_byway (as appropriate). The designation tag
> is AFAIK generally regarded these days as the most definitive indication
> of rights of way status. Freemap (free-map.org.uk) will only render
> paths with a designation tag in colour; all other paths are rendered as
> black lines - but more importantly it makes the data unambiguous.
>
I agree that designation is the most important bit. The rest of the tags 
are too variable to give a consistent message.

There seems to be agreement as to what the desingation tag means and 
what the possible values are, even if it isn't (wasn't?) used in many 
places.