[Talk-GB] On footpaths

[Richard Fairhurst]

Adam Hoyle wrote:
> I am a little confused (I get like that). The rather amazingly wonderful
> potlatch 2 doesn't appear to put the designation stuff in when one tags 
> a footpath or track etc. I will still go through and fix the paths I've 
> added, but I was wondering if there was a reason it's not in potlatch 2

Thus far P2 doesn't have country-specific presets. Until it does, adding
specific values for designation= would be counter-productive - people in
Germany or Lithuania or Iraq or wherever would see a button and start adding
"designation=public_footpath" without knowing what it meant, and we'd lose
the usefulness of it.

I learned that one the hard way with P1. Its "public footpath" preset
("highway=footway, foot=yes") got used by the rest of the world just to mean
"footway", so the meaning of "foot=yes" was lost.

When we add a facility for country-specific presets then we'll do stuff like
that. Of course if you'd like to get involved with the programming that'd be
great. ;)

cheers
Richard



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