[OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering of paths + place=locality in general
Lauri Kytömaa
lkytomaa at cc.hut.fi
Tue Nov 4 19:00:41 GMT 2008
>So: Someone thought that dropping the well-established and well-working
>highway=footway was a good idea. He or she seems to have managed to
>convince people to actually *change* existing data to fit his new idea,
>without, obviously, spending a second thinking about the data consumers
>(i.e. renderers and others).
I was the one who was quite active in the discussion about the proposal,
but i *really* don't know how the Germans got the impression or decided
that all or any footways would better be paths, or even any signed
footways...
If I now look closely at the proposals wording, there's the clause "or
intended for several uses", on which they might have constructed their
reasoning. Yet a foot=designated on a cycleway is, IMO, equally sufficient
to, well, designate it for both uses equally. Then a highway=path is only
for, as the current wording in Tag:highway=path reads, "Paths for which
*all and any* of highway=footway, highway=cycleway and highway=bridleway
would be inappropriate or inadequate, yet usable for travel or
navigation". This leaves for path any hiking trails and urban unofficial
and totally unmaintained and unofficial narrow paths, i.e. the minor ones
that snip a corner of a park or a forest, but also the snowmobile routes
and others which just aren't footways nor tracks.
--
alv
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