[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

[Nop]

Hi!

Nick Whitelegg schrieb:
> I have not got round to marking these up yet, but my intention (German 
> users, please feel free to tell me otherwise!) would be to tag the 
> waymarked paths as
> 
> highway=path|track; foot=designated
> 
> and the unwaymarked tracks as
> 
> highway=track; foot=permissive

Waymarking has no legal impact whatsoever. Those ways are 
foot=yes/permnissive, bicycle=yes/permissive, horse=yes/permissive.

If you use designated for the waymarked ways without legal impact, then 
you need yet another tag (e.g. official) for the real cycleways with 
roadsigns and legal impact.

bye
	Nop