[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

[Roy Wallace]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Morten Kjeldgaard<mok at bioxray.au.dk> wrote:
>
> I think it is time to separate tagging of traffic laws into a separate
> namespace from purely geographical map features. The information is
> useful, but the current concept of OSM tagging is not designed to deal
> with it in a systematic manner.

Can you expand on "separate namespace"? Without a full new proposal,
the "current concept of OSM tagging" is all we have to work with right
now, and the issue is choosing appropriate tags and tagging schemes.
Which do you think more appropriately "separates" legal issues from
geographical map features, the highway=path or
highway=footway/cycleway scheme?