[OSM-talk] Disappearing footpaths

SteveC steve at asklater.com
Tue Apr 3 15:40:49 BST 2007


David Earl wrote:
>> * 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

Not taking sides - but there is one reason, is bridleway the normal term 
in Iraq or Germany?

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/




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