Hi all, thank you for taking the time to discuss my proposition. This has been a remarkable and quite populated discussion in several ways, but it doesn’t answer my question: Which criteria should distinct footway from path?
I think a majority of mappers world wide would agree on this minimum consensus: "highway=footway is mainly a single-use way for pedestrians, whereas highway=path is a universal tag for multi-use or non specific use ways, from rural, mountain and wilderness trails to all kinds of transport infrastructure in the so called developing countries and may be used by any species of non 4-wheel traffic, including stock, mule, yaks and - yes - in some countries even by motorcycles/mopeds etc." It’s remarkable, that parallel to this discussion, the main developers of the standard OpenStreetMap mapnik style has decided to render footway and path identical. In the extended discussions to justify the unifying styling in Mapnik, it’s kind of ironic that @gravitystorm correctly observes the necessity of a proper distinction path vs footway, as he noted in reply to <https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/1713#issuecomment-131596096> : "As has been said many times already, there are so many different interpretations of the difference between footway and path that none of them are useful." Some of you complained, that redefining popular tags makes no sense. According to this belief it would be hardly possibly to develope and enhance any popular tags. Some of you agree, with the present definitions ... well, it is a mess that should be fixed sooner than later. So do you have any functional suggestions or enhancements to my proposition in the OP for a proper classification criteria between footway and path? Thanks, geow -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/highway-footway-Advanced-definition-Distinction-footway-vs-path-tp5851506p5853308.html Sent from the Tagging mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging