Hi, On 21.05.20 10:33, Ture Pålsson via Tagging wrote: > What I suppose that I wish to say with all this is that in practice, I > have seen highway=path used to mean anything from something that is not > even visible on the ground,
An interesting side thread to this is not about the visibility but about the accessibility - at DWG we've recently received a plea from a member of a volunteer mountain rescue team to remove the highway=path attribute from a dangerous approach to a mountain that was only suitable for experienced mountaineers with appropriate gear. The way *did* have a "sac_scale" to indicate difficult alpine hiking but apparently that was not good enough, or too many clients were just ignoring that (in a post on talk-gb recently, Andy Allan wrote: "I've seen maps from a multi-billion-dollar-revenue organisation that were rendering anything with a highway tag the same as their most minor road style"). It is not proven that the many people having required rescue services on that path came there because of OSM - could be any other source too - but this is one aspect of the general "path" problem. If we map "highway=path" + "danger=you will be shot" and then someone gets shot because their Android app only looked at highway=path, can we *really* sit back and say "their fault, we don't map for the Android app"? Sorry if this is somewhere on the Wiki, I love the Wiki for documentation but I hate Wiki discussions with all my heart and cannot bring myself to read them, much less participate in them. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
