Richard Fairhurst <richard@...> writes: >>The general practice in this country is to use footway for paved paths in >>cities and path for muddier countryside ones (or, perhaps, through city >>parks). > >Um, no it isn't. There is absolutely no consensus for using =path in the >countryside rather than =footway. I strongly suspect that if you analysed >the data in the UK countryside, you would find 80% footway, 20% path.
Ah, sorry for making such a rash generalization. What I should have said is that to the extent path is used instead of footway, it has a sense of being an unsurfaced path. Footway is used too even in the countryside. -- Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb