[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

[Pieren]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Martin
Koppenhoefer<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:

I can give the French interpretation of this, and it is quite closed
to the Italian and German's.
We use highway=footway when it is clearly designated for pedestrians
(indicated with
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Image:Fr-B22b-Obligatoire_pour_les_pietons.gif)
or when bikes are not allowed like in parks or around buildings. Most
of them are in urban zones. Same for cycleway which are designated for
bikers (pedestrians are just tolerated but there is a traffic sign
saying it is a cycleway).
We use highway=path when it is not designated for a particular type of
user and is narrower than a track (one vs two parallel dips). And most
of the time, we find them in rural zones.

Pieren