[Talk-us-massachusetts] Trails: Path or Foot Path

[Joseph Holmes]

In Acton we have decided on standardizing so that all trails are tagged 
as highway=path. In some rare instances we use highway=track. All 
sidewalks are tagged as highway=footway and footway=sidewalk. In the 
rare instances where we have what seems like a sidewalk (not a trail), 
but is not associated with a road, then it is highway=footway without 
the footway=sidewalk.

Also we use the following tags on our trails:
access=yes (if true, i.e. if it is a public trail)
foot=designated (if true, so far true for all trails, but the future 
bike trails will be different)
motor_vehicle=no (if true, some tracks are motor_vehicle=private)
surface=unpaved (if true, some trails are paved)
name=Red (we put the color of the blazed trails in the name field, which 
allows us to display it in color. If unblazed, then no name. If the rare 
cases where the trail has a real name, then we use both the color and 
name. The displaying software will remove the color text)

Hope this helps,
Joe

On 05/27/2017 08:00 AM, talk-us-massachusetts-request at openstreetmap.org 
wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 09:21:07 -0400
> From: Roy Herold <rherold at yahoo.com>
> To: talk-us-massachusetts at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Talk-us-massachusetts] Trails: Path or Foot Path
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> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to clean up some of the trails in Carlisle, and see that some
> are tagged as 'Path', while others are 'Foot Path'. Which is preferred?
>
> Also, I saved some edits last night, but they only show up for closer
> zoom levels, where the ruler in the corner is 50m or less. Did I do
> something wrong, or will the changes eventually appear?
>
> Thanks,
> --Roy
>


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Joe Holmes
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