Currently, highway=track and highway=path are displayed in exactly the same style in Mapfactor Navigator Free, for example these two ways, which are different on openstreetmap.org :
This is quite disturbing, since highway=track is usable for cars considering the width, while highway=path can be only used by pedestrians.
After playing around with album.style, both tags seem to be represented by STREET_OTHER_LINE, so there seems to be no way to change is behaviour for the user. I think, a better solution would be to add a new style or to display highway=path in the same way as highway=footway.
I think, it would be nice, if this could be changed in a future release.
Thank you for the reply. So, these different ways would have really to be separated in the rendering process (Generation of the .mca-files). Maybe, this will be done some day...
@mdx, @tomas Changing the rendering parameters during mca-file generation to treat highway=path in the same way as highway=footway should be quite easy. What do you think?
This is the current conversion table (FRC category, average speed): 'service': (7,30), 'footway': (9,5), 'track':(8,5), 'path':(8,5), 'cycleway':(8,10), 'pedestrian':(8,5), 'road':(7,30), 'steps':(10,2), 'construction':(8,10), 'bridleway':(8,5), 'unsurfaced':(8,15) + info at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway
I agree with you and we changed highway=path (July 2014 OSM data - conversion is starting today (as soon as the planet is available).