[OSM-talk] Disappearing footpaths

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Tuesday 03 Apr 2007 00:04, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> 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

Not sure what the general opinion is, but I would strongly personally prefer 
"bridleway" to be kept as it is the term in common usage. "footway" I think 
arose because "footways" are not necessarily public footpaths, but might be 
alleyways in towns, for example.

Nick