[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

[Roy Wallace]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Nick
Whitelegg<Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> In the UK I would tag such a path as foot=designated;bicycle=permissive;
> and pragmatically highway=footway for the moment, using the
> generally-accepted definition of "footway" as "urban surfaced path"
> (though would prefer highway=path; surface=paved)

That is not the definition of footway. highway=footway is "For
designated footpaths, i.e. mainly/exclusively for pedestrians."