May 21, 2020, 13:18 by [email protected]: >>> Obviously we're not tagging for the renderer and the default OSM rendering >>> is discussed elsewhere. >>> >> Then why you mention it? >> > > I was trying to give a context. Sorry if it's not relevant everywhere. My > point is that the usage of highway=path for forest and mountain trails has > increased and more and more data consumers are using OSM data for that > purpose. But the difficulties that @Ture Pålsson very well described is a > reason as good as any to discuss better ways of tagging "paths". > > Even if we should not tag for the renderer, we should always make the data > easy to consume. Otherwise the data is quite meaningless. And highway=path > definitely isn't easy to consume, which was > very well pointed out already > 6.5 years ago <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richard/diary/20333>> by > Richard Fairhurst of > cycle.travel <http://cycle.travel>> and also at > > https://www.cyclestreets.net/help/journey/osmconversion/> ("Horridly complex > tag, everyone uses it differently."). > https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richard/diary/20333 - thanks, I remembered it but failed to track it down. I now added it to the wiki to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpath#Data_consumers >> There was plenty of discussion, if someone is interested then improving and >> expanding >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpath >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Path_controversy >> is likely a good idea. >> > > Like Frederik mentioned, the wiki is a terribly difficult place for > discussions. In lack of better channels, this tagging mailing list is the > best forum I've found for these discussions, before putting conclusions (and > possibly opposing views) in the wiki. > I feel that there was plenty of discussion, just nobody bothered to write summary of them anywhere. > > >> Or using StreetComplete Android app in your area, among included quests >> there >> is one asking about surface for paths where it is missing (if you are >> interested in just this, >> you can change quest order in settings) >> > > Yeah, StreetComplete is great! I've been thinking of suggesting to add other > important tags for paths/tracks as well, like trail visibility and mtb:scale. > But I haven't had the time to understand how that process is done. :) > See https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete/wiki/Adding-new-Quests-to-StreetComplete and https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete/issues/new?template=quest-suggestion.md (second one available via "new issue" button at GH)
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