[OSM-talk] tagging trailblazes / marked paths

[Dave Stubbs]

>> Gotcha. Excepth that, assuming you /can/ walk on it, that's what the
>> rest of us have been using highway=footway for since the dawn of time
>> (well, dawn of map features maybe. well, last couple of years at
>> least).
>
> I  beg to differ here.  What do you mean "/can/ walk on it"?  You can
> basically walk everywhere.  Heck, people are walking up to the top of Mount
> Everest, but I'd be hard pressed to designate highway=footway along the
> vertical walls of ice along that route. So that's not what "the rest of us"
> have been using it for.
>

People don't walk up everest. They climb.

I was talking about paths, obviously.