[OSM-talk] golf course marking

[elvin ibbotson]

IMO highway is fine. In Britain, at least, the term highway includes  
much more than just roads as I found out to my cost when I advised a  
client that his extension would not need planning permission, not  
being close to a highway. I was thinking highway=road but  
highway=footway is also true in British law and he did need  
permission :-(

>
> From: "Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\)" <ajrlists at googlemail.com>
> Date: 8 May 2008 11:56:25 BDT
> To: "'Robin Paulson'" <robin.paulson at gmail.com>, "'Erik Johansson'"  
> <erjohan at gmail.com>
> Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] golf course marking
>
>
> Robin Paulson wrote:
>> ...
>> yes, it is a strange choice. it leads to irrationalities like
>> highway=footway and highway=cycleway
>> why we're not using right_of_way=motorway|primary|cycleway|footway|
>> and so on, i don't know
>
> It's entirely my fault that we have highway=
>
> The reasoning at the time was that I wanted to group similar  
> features and
> where possible use "way" at the end as that was the common  
> denominator for
> all of the generic "types" I was thinking about. If I had picked  
> "roadway" I
> felt using it to describe a footpath might be less than intuitive for
> instance. So highway it became (very much thinking of highways and  
> byways at
> the time).
>
> As Richard has pointed out, the Right of Way over a particular  
> route is an
> entirely different matter and one that is best avoided unless we  
> truly do
> know the legal situation.
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
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