It's now almost 3 years that I'm mapping and when I entered small informal (not planned or built) footpaths I was using cryptic tag combinations like highway=footway, informal=yes, width=0.3 (or highway=path), surface=ground. While that is not impossible, it is still somehow strange. Why shouldn't we simply add another highway class on the lowest end? Would simplify all of our lives (at least for all those who sometimes leave the car when mapping) and add some clarity.
Looking at a dictionary I found "trail" (for german "Trampelpfad"), and helas: there is already a tag-page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtrail It isn't very clear though and from the picture I'd say that is highway=path. I am aiming at stuff like this: http://www.thesenselessunit.net/funnystuff/trampelpfad.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Trampelpfad_zum_Michaelberg_im_Maudacher_Bruch.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kenkp9DHXXA/SsrR-lYGdOI/AAAAAAAAB0Q/HqUc6Nob-Ag/s320/trampelpfad1.jpg especially in urban setting (unofficial ways in parks where there should have been a way but nobody planned/built it and similar situations). We could hijack the trail page (given that trail to native speakers implies what I want to express) and - after getting to a conclusion here - put a meaningful definition there. An alternative could be highway=informal (IMHO; what do you think?). There are currently according to taginfo 77 ways highway=trail in our data, which is 0,00% of the total of 32,7 million ways tagged with highway. Probably most (if not all) of those ways will still be congruent with the refined new definition of highway=trail, but we could attach a FIXME to them. Or do you already have another well established tag for those informal paths? Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
