[OSM-talk] Tagging Scheme Recommendations: highway=path, footway, trail?

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Fri Aug 27 17:40:16 BST 2010


On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:12 PM, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't that only be used on the section of the path that actually has the steps, however?  I am wondering how (or if) you would tag the entire path to indicate that you can, legally, use a bicycle or motorcycle on it, but it isn't well-suited to such use.  Another reason that you might want to tag a path in such a manner would be if it had stepping-stones across a stream, rather than a bridge.

Then mark the reasons it's not suitable. We have this same discussion
with cycling (in fact, Peter Miller had an entire presentation on this
issue at SOTM09 - he just suggested the wrong solution :-) ). One
persons "unsuitable for motorcycles" is another person's fun and
games. So if the problem is that there are steps, then mark the steps.
If the problem is that there's a massive chasm with a log over it,
then mark bridge=yes width=0.25m surface=log maxweight=150kg (or
similar!). Mark the stepping stones as stepping stones.

In short, mark the facts that lead you to think it's not suitable, and
leave the judgement to the producers of the map as to what they think
is appropriate for their particular audience.

Cheers,
Andy



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