[Talk-GB] New user renaming highway=cycleway with NCN references

[Richard Fairhurst]

On 10/05/2016 20:59, Eric Grosso wrote:
> What do you think? Do we, OSM contributors, tag all the highways part of
> a NCN as cycleways? What to do when in some cases, a highway is both
> part of a NCN route and a hiking route (e.g the John Muir Way)?

Please don't use highway=path:
	http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richard/diary/20333

For a towpath I'd use (and I believe the general UK consensus is) 
highway=cycleway if it's been improved (widened, resurfaced) to 
shared-use standard; or highway=footway, bicycle=yes if it's still 
largely unimproved. And, as ever, add a surface tag.

Richard