2010/10/22 Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net>: > On 10/22/10 12:31 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> >> They have to be not planned, not maintained, ground >> surface: they are simply there because people (or animal) use them. >> >> There might be some intersection with small paths in some cases, but >> usually I'd also say that paths are broader. > > this will lead to some confusion in the US, as we have an extensive > network of maintained wilderness trails, e.g. > > The Applalachian Trail (2175 miles from Georgia to Maine) > The Long Trail (famous in northern New England) > > and various others. you intend highway=trail to apply to a > substantially less formal entity, but i predict that if highway=trail > is there, it will be misused in the US.
agreed. Trail is not a good word, and those mentioned by you above won't qualify for the new value, they are highway=path IMHO. You got me right, it is about a less formal entity, also in urban setting, but not only. highway=informal_path I'm putting this on a new thread as otherwise there will be confusion. > it'd be interesting to see if highway=trail actually appears now, and > on what sorts of trails. there are only 77 ways tagged with this (out of more then 32 million highways in OSM). cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
