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qwertz100

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 :

Path: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/33136472
Track: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/27189684

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.

chattiewoman

STREET_OTHER_LINE as a "pool" for very different kind of ways was causing issues even earlier:
http://forum.mapfactor.com/discussion/comment/3729#Comment_3729

qwertz100

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...

qwertz100

@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?

mdx

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).

qwertz100

Thank you, that's really an improvement.

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