One of the most important differences is that for highway=footway, we know that pedestrians are allowed (unless other tags alter the access explicitly). With highway=path we can't always assume that pedestrians are allowed along it. I know there are routing systems that care about this difference.
As others have said, the choice of which to use is very very fuzzy, but if you use highway=path please make sure to use some access tagging to say what kind of traffic may pass along it. Best Dan 2014-11-03 22:38 GMT+00:00 Mike Thompson <miketh...@gmail.com>: > I am editing trails in a US National Park of which I have first hand > knowledge. Nearly all trails in this area have been tagged > "highway=footway" although most of them are open equally to foot > traffic and horse traffic. Any reason to leave them as "footways"? The > wiki suggests that "path" is more appropriate. It would be nice to > have consistent data, otherwise it suggests that one trail is > different from the next when if fact they are not. > > By the way, might this be an artifact of the defaults in Potlatch? > > Thanks, > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
