There’s also a ITO layer that highlights public rights of way tagged with designation=*. Since it’s somewhat specialist, it doesn’t appear in the drop-down layers box on their map, but you can access it directly at http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=87
I think we have drifted off the subject question here which is how can Philip differntiate public access paths from private paths. The solution is straightforward, tag the priavte paths “access=private” and permissive paths “access=permissive”.
I have found that laying a highway = footway over a highway=service renders quite well for situations where a public footpath runs along a farm road for a short distance. Is there a general rule that ways should not run over each other? your views would be appreciated.
Stuart
Yep, you shouldn’t really do that: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/One_feature,_one_OSM_element . It might render nicely (for now) on the default osm.org rendering, but will break on lots of other ones.
If it helps anyone, I created (with Richard’s help, actually) a version of osm2pgsql’s style file to render designation in preference to tracktype:
https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/designation-style
That enables you to render tiles that look like OSM’s standard ones but show public footpaths (whether on footpaths or tracks) in “footpath salmon” and non-public ones as “path grey”.
On the more general question, I’d use “access=private, foot=yes”, designation=public_footpath" on a stretch of private driveway that is also a public footpath.