[OSM-talk] footway vs. path [Was: highway=track and motorcar=yes/no]

[Thomas Wood]

2008/11/6 Rainer Dorsch <rdorsch at web.de>:
> Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2008 schrieb Alex Mauer:
>> Rainer Dorsch wrote:
>> > I am wondering what is the difference between footway and path? sac_scale
>> > on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features seems to apply
>> > for both. Does that mean a mountain hiking path can be a path or a
>> > footway?
>> >
>> > Are paths larger than footways?
>> >
>> > Is it for paths required that any other vehicle/horse can use the path
>> > otherwise it is a footway?
>>
>> There is no defined physical difference between footway and path.  The
>> difference is that footways are primarily or exclusively for use by foot
>> traffic, while paths are not.
>>
>
> That seems to be in contrast to josm presets:
>
> In Presets->Ways all Hiking paths are highway=path, none of them is
> highway=footway.
>
> Rainer
>

=> The JOSM presets are wrong.