History of proposals to fix highway=path ambiguity – and a wayforward?

[Peter_Elderson]

@Tolstoi21

I’d say that in this scheme a “bare” highway=path without any other tags, precisely and fairly understandably classifies an “unknown” path. Routers absolutely should consider them nigh impassable and route around (or very heavily penalize) such “bare” paths.

If highway=path without any other tags were considered impassabe, I would have to re-tag many perfectly passable paths in all the hiking/foot routes I maintain in NL, which is only a fraction of all the routes. Few, if any, NL mappers will do that.