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

[Karl Newman]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Thomas Wood <grand.edgemaster at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

Come on, you should know better than that. This is OSM. There is no "right"
and "wrong". Sheesh. Absolutist. ;-)

Karl
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