A Bridleway?? was: Re: [OSM-talk] Map Features tagging question

[Floris]

can someone explain to me what a bridleway is?
i'm not a native english speaker and have never heard of the term...
it just keeps popping up here :)

greetings,
floris looyesteyn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tgomas" <tgomas at gmail.com>
To: "Andy Robinson" <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk>
Cc: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Map Features tagging question


>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Nick Whitelegg [mailto:nick at hogweed.org]
>> >
>> >On Wednesday 19 Jul 2006 10:15, you wrote:
>> >> I'd just tag those as "footway". That's what I've been doing for all 
>> >> the
>> >> well trodden paths across land I turn up
>> >>
>> >
>> >Should this be the case even if they have horse rights?
>> >
>> >Nick
>> 2006/7/19, Andy Robinson <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk>:
>> I don't see why not. The designation is more for establishing what the
>> feature looks like when rendered. You are already tagging additionally to
>> note what is permissive and what is not.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Andy
>>
>
> But the same feature may looks like a footway for you and like a
> bridleway for me. So what? Is the first one writing the "highway" tag
> considered as being true?
>
> I think we mixed up several things in this tag like the size and the
> nature. I'm sure that separating all the characteristics of a feature
> in separate attributes will be too heavy to maintain, but perhaps is
> it possible to extract some things from the "highway" tag.
>
> Another example is the "residential" case:
> I don't see any difference between "highway=minor,
> abutters=residential" and "highway=residential". It's confusing since
> some roads with tag "highway=secondary"   have too the
> "abutters=residential" tag.
>
> regards,
> tGomas
>
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