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

[Shaun McDonald]

Who stopped rendering highway=footway, and when????

highway=path in my view is a muddy route over grass or through a  
forest, and is more difficult to walk on than a footway.

Shaun

On 20 Nov 2008, at 21:28, OJ W wrote:

> 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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