On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 11:30, Daniel Westergren <wes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To confuse things more (or maybe less...), I just realized that iD is > using highway=cycleway, bicycle=designated, foot=designated for a "Cycle > and foot path". But in JOSM, the preset for the same is using > highway=path... Similarly, iD is using highway=footway as default for a > sidewalk. > Daniel, this difference in presets between JOSM and iD for foot-cycle-ways is well known. And there are more than just these two variants, unfortunately.. I have been saying all the way that we have to live with these - it is much too late to re-tag them. What we are discussing now is how to make sure that a hiking path (not a foot-cycle-way) is tagged correctly as such. This is not helped by the fact that we do have hundreds of thousands of ways that are tagged as highway=path and we are discussing how to indicate that a path is a hiking trail. It has been proposed to introduce a new value path=trail or path=hiking for that purpose. As we do already have the sac_scale tagging for level of difficulty of hiking paths and the lowest level of that is sac_scale=hiking. This would correspond exactly, in my view, to the new proposed tag value(s) without introducing a new tagging. sac_scale=hiking is used 319 785 times - so I do not see a need to create a new tagging meaning exactly the same thing.
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