On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Roy Wallace <waldo000...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Anthony <o...@inbox.org> wrote: >> >> What if I map the entire section of grass which is within the right of >> way as a polygon with highway=path, area=yes? That's how we represent >> infinite overlapping criss-crossing "invisible-paths", like a >> pedestrian mall. > > Not bad. But what makes that area of grass a "path" as opposed to just > an area of grass you can walk on (e.g. landuse=meadow or something + > foot=yes)? Is there a difference?
Well, I didn't know landuse tags were routable. And landuse=meadow sounds to me like a terrible tag ("meadow" is not a type of usage of land). But I think the key difference is that the area of land is located in a right of way. And a second key difference is that it's useful for routing purposes. > I tend to think "paths" should be limited to elongated areas, designed > for or used typically for travel (other than for large vehicles like > cars), with usually a constant or slowly varying width. There's > probably a better definition though. I'd say this strip of land qualifies by that definition. Length, about 80 meters. Width: about 10-15 meters. Used quite often for pedestrian travel (it's the way you get to the park, plus school children regularly walk across it on their way to/from school). The width is fairly constant. Frankly, I don't see much point in using an area, unless you're going to use an area for basically everything. I was kind of being sarcastic about that. But whatever. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk