[OSM-talk] Footpaths (was: Re: Ordnance Survey tries to reinforce its stranglehold over "derived" geographic data in the UK)

[OJ W]

however, the much easier highway=footpath is now deprecated and
unrendered, meaning that lots of well-researched rights-of-way are now
either forgotten in OSM, or converted to 'footway' with loss of their
RoW information.



On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Nick Whitelegg
<Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk> wrote:
>>Actually, the current tagging doesn't seem to have enough granularity
> here. The highway=path, highway=footway, foot=yes, horse=designated etc.
> tags >doesn't seem to include a way of actually saying if a path is a
> public right of way or a permissive path.
>
> It does. The "yes" value for a tag means that it's a legal right of way
> for that mode of transport (foot, horse, bicycle). The "permissive" value
> means it isn't, it's just a permissive path.
>
> Nick
>
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