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

[Richard Fairhurst]

Craig Wallace wrote:
> 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.

Yes, access laws are indeed different in Scotland to England & Wales.

However, the point remains that highway=path, alone, does not tell you
anything about the character of a path, nor provide any way for you to
deduce it with a >50% certainty. So if you must use highway=path, then
surface and access tags are absolute essentials, and width tags etc. are
helpful. Or, alternatively, use a meaningful tag like =cycleway, which is
simpler for mappers and safer for consumers.

Richard



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