[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Designation

[Kevin Peat]

I'm in favour.  I think separating legal status from the highway tag is a
good thing in general.

Currently with bridleways tagged as highway=bridleway you have no idea what
kind of actual way you are dealing with.  Where I live (Devon) there are a
lot of bridleways, some on wide tracks and some on singletrack paths.  I
also know of one bridleway near me that runs up the driveway of a country
house.

It would be nice to be able to differentiate that with:

   highway=footway designation=bridleway
   highway=track designation=bridleway
   highway=service designation=bridleway

Rather than the current situation where either the type of way or the legal
status is lost.

Kevin




On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> Richard Mann wrote:
> > This is a request for comments on the proposal for a new
> > Key:designation. Hopefully it's had it's rough edges removed already,
> > but I would appreciate your comments.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Designation
>
> I'm opposed; this seems like a duplication of effort for what route
> relations are currently for, and creates redundancy and overlap in scope
> with the service= and highway= tags.  As such, this really sounds like a
> step in the wrong direction.  Perhaps expanding the service= tags and
> getting the mapnik and osmarender we use on the slippymap to render
> these things instead of route tags on the underlying ways when the
> underlying way is a member of a route=road relation.
>
> The cyclemap is getting this right; but strangely, none of the other
> renderers.  And it's not like it would be that hard to get that fixed;
> someone's already rendering road relations complete with correct highway
> badges already.
>
> http://weait.com/maps/?zoom=11&lat=43.14469&lon=-79.17383&layers=0B0
>
>
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