[OSM-talk] Disappearing footpaths

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Tuesday 03 Apr 2007 07:23, jammeh wrote:
> Kristian Thy wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 03, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > highway=horseway
> > highway:en_UK=bridleway
>
> I agree that bridleway might convey more than just "highway=horseway"
> (which seems a rather ugly if somewhat logical arrangement) Part of the
> problem being that if I've tagged anything as bridleway, and I don't
> think I have, but i could have ;), I'd have wanted it to imply
>
> highway=horseway
> *and*
> highway=cycleway
>
> Perhaps i'm out of date here, this is my Scouts intepretation of
> bridleway, something similar to
> http://enquire.hertscc.gov.uk/rowguide/appendices/appeni.htm

The way to deal with this is to say:

highway=bridleway; horse=yes; bicycle=yes

(if it's an official bridleway) or

highway=bridleway; horse=permissive

if it's an unofficial bridleway with permissive (unofficial) horse rights but 
no bike rights.

Nick