On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer<dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/8/16 Roy Wallace <waldo000...@gmail.com>: >> Whitelegg<nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk> wrote: >>> In the UK I would tag such a path as foot=designated;bicycle=permissive; >>> and pragmatically highway=footway for the moment, using the >>> generally-accepted definition of "footway" as "urban surfaced path" >>> (though would prefer highway=path; surface=paved) >> >> That is not the definition of footway. highway=footway is "For >> designated footpaths, i.e. mainly/exclusively for pedestrians." > > that's the recent wiki recommendation, but I guess footway is far > older than this definition from Jan 08. Don't know how many footways > have been in the db till then and how many were added afterwards not > corresponding to this definition, but might be lots ;-)
Sure, but perpetuating deprecated definitions via the mailing list without specifically indicating them as such (deprecated) is IMHO damaging. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk