Post #4473780

2026-05-05 14:08 UTC

Commented: "what I’m saying is, for highway=trunk, physical properties come as a result of its class. Many cars are using it, so the government might make it wider and improve amenities. Routers tend to use the highway classification because other people are choosing their routes according to this classification, whether they are using maps or just choosing the fastest route. So what I want is to follow where other people go, not the surface or the Swiss Alpine Club guidance for my local park."

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@IvanSanchez@mastodon.social 2026-05-05 14:14

@zverik@en.osm.town The counter-argument is that applying a higher classification to a path doesn't necessarily affect its physical properties. You might be surprised at the conservation state of some of Spain's long-distance walking routes. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Europe/Long-distance_paths

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@jonpsp@mstdn.social 2026-05-05 15:12

@zverik@en.osm.town If someone is looking for a walking path, having it shared with cyclists and/or horse riders is probably a sign that it's a lower class path (similarly from the point of view of the others). In the meantime, all we've got are width, surface, smoothness, segregated (where applicable) and membership of relations.

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@simon@en.osm.town 2026-05-05 17:03

@zverik@en.osm.town but footpaths in a park and streets are different in that we explicitly want to channel motorised traffic along specific routes (for many reasons, but mainly because traffic sucks), typically there is no need to do that in a park.

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