[OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

Alex Mauer hawke at hawkesnest.net
Tue May 24 19:57:10 BST 2011


On 05/24/2011 01:49 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Um, we have that already.
> 
> For physical tags, we have:
>     highway=footway, or
>     highway=cycleway, or
>     highway=bridleway, or
>     highway=track
> 
> See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Duck_tagging. "If it quacks like a
> duck, looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, call it a duck." 

It’s unfortunate then that footways, cycleways, and bridleways, and even
some tracks, all fall within the same range of appearance.

—Alex Mauer “hawke”




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