[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 14:04:06 BST 2009


2009/8/10 Tobias Knerr <osm at tobias-knerr.de>:
> Dave Stubbs wrote:
>> Now it's an organised, and "approved" confused mess where anyone with
>> a clue automatically withdraws from discussions to keep their sanity
>> intact [...] knowing full well that not being there won't make much
>> difference to the eventual stupid decision.
>
> Do you have some examples for bad decisions that were produced by wiki
> voting?
>
> "path" isn't a good example because most of the chaos actually stems
> from people using the pre-ochlocracy foot-/cycle-/bridleway without
> having a common definition for what they actually mean.

the same thing that people wanted to achieve with path (expressing the
official designation) can be achieved with those
foot-/cycle-/bridleway by adding supplementory tags like
xy=designated, xy=official. Therefore I would consider the introdution
of path a bad decision.

cheers,
Martin




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