[OSM-talk] Upcoming openstreetmap-carto changes

[SomeoneElse]

On 25/07/2014 14:03, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
> From this description - I would tag it as highway=footway (as for 
> public it is a footway and I guess that it is used
> primarily as footway, not as a driveway)

It's not used primarily as a footway - it's primarily a track used to 
access farmland and a golf course.  However, foot traffic does have a 
legal right of way over it.  I am concerned, however, that we'll see the 
same sort of "tagging for the renderer" that we saw with abandoned 
railways after that change was made.

I do get the impression that these changes haven't really been thought 
through at all - no thought given to what the impact will be worldwide 
(as opposed to a couple of well-mapped cities), no thought about tablet 
or phone access, no attempt at QA (to let people look at the impact 
before becoming the new "standard layer").

We seem to have ended up with a layer that looks prettier, but is much 
less useful as an actual _map_ to help people navigate from one place to 
another.

Cheers,

Andy