Demanding paths

[yvecai]

On the topo map, it seems every highway = path elements are rendered uniformeously. Maybe you'd like to take tags like trail_visibility, sac_scale or informal=yes into account not to give users a false security feeling.

[quinncnl]

Hi @yvecai it's a good suggestion. I'll try to come up with some variants based on trail_visibility and sac_scale. Also make path and footpath differ more prominently.

[yvecai]

Here is how a set the cursor at Opensnowmap if it helps : https://github.com/OpenSnowMap-org/mapnik-opensnowmap.org/blob/master/k_snow_map/project.yml#L451
Of course my choices are debatable.

[quinncnl]

Some ground work has been done: https://github.com/tracestrack/osmdb-for-vis/tree/main

With various tag combinations I can start to try different styles.

[quinncnl]

Top 6 rows are for sac_scale, beginning from [difficult_alpine_hiking](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:sac_scale#sac_scale-difficult_alpine_hiking). Bottom 6 rows are for trail_visibility, beginning from trail_visibility=no.

[yvecai]

I won't discuss the cartography, but this is cool to see the issue tackled with.

[quinncnl]

Changes merged and deployed.

[osmuser63783]

Fantastic, I can see this on https://tracesmap.com in the street layer, are there any plans to enable this on the topo layer as well?

Also, would you consider enabling this for highway=footway and steps? There are areas of the world where many hiking paths are mapped as footway (example). There are about 18 ,000 highway=footway and 12,000 highway=steps with sac_scale tags.

[quinncnl]

@osmuser63783 It makes sense to support footway and steps. Just updated the style to support that. For topo map it should be enabled already. It takes some time to be rerendered.