[Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

Nick Whitelegg Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk
Sun May 22 16:33:43 BST 2011


>The problem is having highway=bridleway with highway=track.  Now as  Richard B said there is now the designation tag so >highway=track and  designation=public >bridleway can be done.  However this isn't rendered  either at all, or if it were would >clash and not render correctly (brown  dash for track with yellow dash for >byway on mapnik).  Freemap seems to  asume >that >highway=byway is another way of saying it's a road.  Which  is odd becuase byways may be on a tarmacked >road (can >only >think of 1  i've seen), but they are also on tracks or just grass.  In this example  the byways are mere tire tracks in the >grass:  http://www.free-map.org.uk>
>freemap/index.php?zoom=16&lat=52.09726&lon=-1.06801&layers=

Tag them with designation=public_byway, or byway, or byway_open_to_all_traffic, then they'll show up. ;-)

Nick


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