Thanks Dudley. I'm not sure that I agree that this is UK specific. We render roads according to their status (motorway to unclassified), and as such I see potential to do this for paths irrespective of country. In regards to designation=*, are we now the only country that makes a distinction between paths you have a legal right to walk on and any other path that might exist because people happen to walk over the land thus leaving a "desire line" path?
Rob On 17 August 2015 at 18:42, Dudley Ibbett <dudleyibb...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > My thoughts as follows: > > > 1. This is really going to be something for a UK specific rendering. > It is actually quite useful as a QC exercise to rendering footways/paths > with and without a designation tag. Something I do on my own Garmin map. > The presumption on my part being that ideally we would like to see all > footway/bridleways etc have their appropriate designation tag. > 2. I think this is really something for a specialist > site. “waymarkedtrails” does this very well. > 3. I would not be in favour of this. It would be very subjective and > would vary throughout the year for many footpaths and depend on who and how > many people had walked it recently. > > > I guess if the new rendering for footway throws up significant problems > there will be more interest in a UK website. > > Regards > > Dudley > > Sent from Windows Mail > > *From:* Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Sunday, 16 August 2015 18:27 > *To:* Talk-GB <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> > > Hi all, > > Given that paths and footways are now rendered the same way in the default > OSM style I wonder whether it is time to look at how the map can provide > better information. > > For rural mappers tagging a path/footway as unpaved surface results in it > having less prominence on the map. As most major public rights of way are > unpaved this makes these paths harder to view on the default OSM map. > > Some possible changes: > > 1. Render all paths/footways that are tagged as > designation=public_footpath (or other RoW) more prominently. > 2. Render those paths/footways that make up a long distance walking route > more prominent (relation data). > 3. Render based on another tag such as trail visibility [1] or maybe we > need a brand new tag to indicate path dominance (like we have > motorway/trunk/primary/etc for roads). > > What are people's thoughts on this? The second has a request on github > already [2]. > > [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:trail_visibility > [2] https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1750 > > Regards, > Rob > >
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