> On Jun 10, 2020, at 12:31 AM, Volker Schmidt <vosc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Two points to get this thread back on track: > > 1) The highway=track tag has always been wider than agriculture and forestry. > There is an often overlooked "etc." in the description on the wiki, and it > has been there from the very first version of 26 May 2008. (see also > Duck_tagging <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Duck_tagging>) > > 2) "In my rendering of hiking maps I currently have to look at 13 tags and > their values to make a decision ..." > "I think we need some more values for the highway tag..." > These two statements together (made in the same message in this thread) > highlight the basic problem of this and other discussions: > If we need to look at X tags and values now, adding new values only makes the > list longer - there's no way around this.
My hope would be that addition of more highway=* values that better match what people are trying to map would be a short term pain (data consumers need to add one more check) but long term benefit. For example, as mappers discover they can map a voie verte in France or a “Rails to Trails” in the USA as highway=greenway and not as arbitrary choice of track, path, cycleway or bridle path differentiated by a bunch of foot=designated, bicycle=designated, etc. tags they are likely to migrate to the simpler tagging. At some time in the future data consumers could begin to be more restrictive on their logic. Cheers, Tod
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