Documenting the problems with `highway=path`

[Woazboat]

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Consuming highway=path

I think many consumers of openstreetmap data are not aware of the breadth of what highway=path can represent. Examples from the last weeks: Alpinist routes marked as footpaths Tagging an informal path that is steep, rocky and unsuitable for any form of wheeled access Perhaps the documentation is not upfront comprehensible and in need of change? I imagine something like an ambox? Consumers beware: A path in OSM can be 2+m wide and paved with asphalt or a MTB downhill or just the idea of a si…

Consuming highway=path, Take 3

This the third instantiation of trying to cope with reality: There is no use in adding more language to the documentation. There is already too much text there, in my opinion. Still, I’d like to at least change the top picture and I made a collage: [Paths] File:Openstreetmap Paths Collage.jpg - Wikimedia Commons It shows three locations: 1) So called shared use (municipal) infrastructure, that featured highly in the process of proposing the tag. 2) A path in the woods, something that was pro…