[OSM-talk] how to map this? cycleway or footpath?

[Ben Laenen]

Andy Allan wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Valent Turkovic
> >
> > <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> How do you differentiate from path and footpath tag? What is the
> >> difference between them? Can you show me an example?
> >
> > As the wiki says, briefly:
> >
> > highway=path is "a generic path" (i.e. any path)
> > highway=footway (not "footpath") is "a designated footpath; i.e.,
> > mainly/exclusively for pedestrians"
> 
> Oh FFS, who changed the definition of highway=footway again?

Er, no-one? Check the history of 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dfootway

That definition has been on that page since it was created in January 2008 and 
no-one ever changed it.

Ben