Adam Hoyle [mailto:adam.li...@dotankstudios.com] wrote: >Sent: 04 May 2011 6:07 PM >To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] On footpaths > >This is a very interesting discussion. I've been walking and then adding >footpaths north of High Wycombe / south of Wendover and surrounding >areas for a couple of years, but for various felt-too-much-like-work reasons >I've only just joined this mailing list in the last few weeks. > >Fwiw I had thought that footway meant an official footpath and path meant >an non-official, but obviously well used footpath, not that I used path that >often tbh. > >I'm glad to hear about the designation tag, as that makes things a bit clearer, >but how does designation work with highway=bridleway? Should I be adding >both?
I'd say yes. In a UK centric thinking it's probably sufficient to ignore it since on the whole if you can take your horse over the route its probably most likely to be an official designated public Bridleway. But I'm sure there will be those that can point to exceptions. Cheers Andy > >Cheers, > >Adam > > > >On 4 May 2011, at 14:37, SomeoneElse wrote: > > > On 04/05/2011 13:22, Peter Oliver wrote: > > . There's an "old" method of tagging ways suitable for >pedestrians, and a "new" method. > > > > I'd ignore the "new" method as "documented" there. It was added by >a wikifiddler a couple of months ago and bears no resemblance to common >usage in the UK. The huge table that was added also makes the page pretty >much illegible. > > The "new" method is not "wrong", but doesn't add any more >information and involves more typing. Personally, I'll record new footpaths as >highway=footway, and if someone already mapped one as highway=path, >foot=blah I'll leave it at that. Life's too short for edit wars. > > As well as echoing what other people have said (e.g. recording >designation=public_footpath if there's a sign) what I would add is to see >please get mapping! Don't worry about getting 100% of the detail at the first >attempt (if someone spots later that something was actually a bridleway and >not just a footpath they can change it). > > Cheers, > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
