Definition change of path in dec 2022

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Hi guys,
has there been some voting for the definition change of highway=path done in dec 2022 by user @multimodaal ?

I’m disliking the new def, also now there is a mismatch between the en-version and the localized versions.

Old def:

highway=path is a generic path, either multi-use or unspecified usage, open to all non-motorized vehicles and not intended for motorized vehicles unless tagged so separately. The path may have any type of surface.

New def:

highway=path indicates a generic path that is used by pedestrians, small vehicles like bicycles, and/or animals. This includes walking and hiking trails, bike paths, horse and stock trails, mountain bike trails, as well as multi-use paths for cyclists and pedestrians or similar combinations. …
A highway=path is not for use by four-wheeled (two-track) vehicles.

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Hi, this has already been discussed at length here:

and here:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:highway%3Dpath#Recent_changes

and here:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:highway%3Dpath#More_Recent_Changes

Cheers

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I’m disliking the new def, also now there is a mismatch between the en-version and the localized versions.

I dislike that path without additional tags in the old definition excludes motor vehicles. IMHO it would have been more logical to allow everybody as long as they aren’t forbidden.

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The ‘path’ value is problematic, very often used by hiking trail mappers in places where in fact they are (agricultural) tracks. Not that farmers would use a navigator to get from A to B, but if these ways lead often to some parking for tourists, a quarry, lone residences and what not, no way of routing there and OSMI fulminating. Yesterday removed a duplicate section and all vehicle things went belly up in the daily QA report. One section along the way had been incorrectly tagged and everything after becoming no-go, for vehicular transport.

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Ok, thanks. Don’t know why I was not able to find the thread with the search function. :wink:

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| SekeRob
October 13 |

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The ‘path’ value is problematic, very often used by hiking trail mappers in places where in fact they are (agricultural) tracks.

+1

Not that farmers would use a navigator to get from A to B,

+1, but routing is not the only reason we map.

but if these ways lead often to some parking for tourists, a quarry, lone residences and what not,

these are all reasons for typically “highway=service”

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