[OSM-talk] Disappearing footpaths

[Jeroen Dekkers]

At Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:03:50 +0200,
Kristian Thy wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 02, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> > On Monday 02 Apr 2007 20:04, OJW wrote:
> > > Now that highway=footpath is gone from map features / osmarender...
> > > * can someone add an auto-conversion of any existing "highway=footpath"
> > > ways to the spell-checking script, so that we don't lose them
> > > * to be consistant, shouldn't bridleway be replaced with horseway?
> > 
> > Not unless someone wants to volunteer to change all the highway=bridleway tags 
> > to horseway :-)
> 
> If only we had some way of getting a machine to do this tedious,
> repetitive work ...

I think it shouldn't be too hard to script that. Looking at the
current planet, there 1237 ways to that have 'highway=bridleway'. I
can update those, and look at next planet and update any remaining
instances too, if everybody agrees that it should be changed.

Jeroen Dekkers