Recently a member of the Belgian community announced on the German mailing list, that "the Belgian Community" had decided to make a mass edit to change all route=foot to route=hiking.
He said the wiki said that these 2 had the same meaning. Further discussion on the German ML showed that instead there might be subtle differences. E.g. for short pedestrian routes inside of cities "hiking" was perceived as not appropriate. Looking at the actually used values there are even more variants for pedestrian routes (in order of occurence): http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/route#values hiking foot walking and maybe also running nordic_walking (16 times) and some even less used ones I'd like to discuss about the meaning of those values (currently the wiki isn't very verbose about the meaning) and then we could transfer this into the wiki to expand these articles: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Route#Walking_routes_.28also_hiking_and_pilgrimage.29 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Walking_Routes "Walking routes are named or numbered or otherwise signed routes, which may go along roads or trails or combinations of these. See also Hiking." e.g. it doesn't even say that these routes are for pedestrians (I guess whoever wrote this thought it was obvious). My personal view is that hiking has a somehow different connotation then walking, while "foot" might be used to summarize the 2 under one generic term. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
