On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Mike Harris <mik...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> I think this is an important point. It becomes a problem when >> people try to map the *law*, because legal status is often >> difficult to verify - e.g. you can't see it! > > ... Unless you have access to non-copyright information on legal status and > this is reasonably available in the public domain in England and Wales ...
And what would you suggest for the rest of the world? > I would avoid highway=path so far as possible and give preference to > highway=footway / cycleway / track etc. unless the path on the ground was an > ill-defined informal track with unknown (or no) legal status. This provides > more information. In Australia, we ARE tagging paths generally with "unknown (or no) legal status". Should we *guess* the legal status and use footway/cycleway etc., or use highway=path + surface + width? _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
