[OSM-talk] Argh! - Wholesale deletion of foot|horse=yes tags

[Richard Fairhurst]

Nick Whitelegg wrote:

> I think the thing is that 'highway=footway' on its own ought to imply
> permissive, because there are large number of footways  
> (particularly urban)
> where you don't know its right of way status. Therefore it would be  
> better to
> make the default permissive, and add the extra foot=yes if you  
> *know* it's a
> right of way.

I see what you're saying, but it's not obvious from the tag.  
Something like "right-of_way=public footpath" would make it explicit,  
rather than overloading too many assumptions on really basic-sounding  
tags and hoping that people have read the list debates!

cheers
Richard