[Talk-GB] Public Rights of Way - legal vs reality

[Andy Allan]

On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 20:24, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
<robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 14:13, nathan case <nathancase at outlook.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for your input Robert, the approach taken for routes not following the definitive line makes sense - though does this lead to two paths being rendered? Or does highway=no prevent this? I will also add the fixme as Tony suggests.
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> I'd be surprised if any map renders this as a highway.

I've seen maps from a multi-billion-dollar-revenue organisation that
were rendering anything with a highway tag the same as their most
minor road style. So I think it was a case of rendering highway=* as a
small road, and then adding additional rules for specific highway
values to show them as larger roads.

Very few people would make this mistake since it's a pretty obvious
problem that will show up quickly, but I do wonder how many people use
a specific list of road values and then draw everything else as paths.
In that case, there's a risk of highway=no showing up as a path.

Thanks,
Andy