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

[Craig Wallace]

On 2016-05-11 06:44, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> 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.

Maybe the consensus in England.
In Scotland, where paths can be used on foot, bicycle, horse etc, then 
highway=path makes sense. And that is how they are generally tagged in OSM.