[OSM-talk] Disappearing footpaths

[David Earl]

> * to be consistant, shouldn't bridleway be replaced with horseway?
> highway=bridleway tags to horseway :-)
>
> If only we had some way of getting a machine to do this tedious,
> > repetitive work ...
>


This whole thread has to be an April Fool's joke surely.

WHY? Why make unnecessary work changing bridleway to horseway?!

Why on earth bother changing the common term for something to something
nonsensical. And it's just a tag value. It could be wibblewobble as long as
all the tools that need to know agree on the meaning, though somewhat harder
to maintain for the average human admittedly.

There's far too much agonising over what tags and values are called IMO.
It's useful they're something comprehensible, but they're internal, they
really don't matter.

What does matter is when the structure rather than the words used prevents
something being represented, e.g. route=... which means you can only have
one route along a way.

David