Roy Wallace says ...
Mike Harris > -----Original Message----- > From: tagging-boun...@openstreetmap.org > [mailto:tagging-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Roy Wallace > Sent: 11 December 2009 07:45 > To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools > Subject: [Tagging] Tagging highway=cycleway without explicit > knowledge ofthe law? > > If I trace (from aerial imagery) a path that I'm pretty sure > would be great to ride on, and that appears to have been made > nice and wide for cyclists, could/should I tag this as > highway=cycleway? I know that pedestrians are probably > welcome to walk on it as well (in Australia, no one is going > to kick a pedestrian off a bikeway like the one I am referring to). > > Could/should I add an additional tag to clarify that I really > don't know the legal status/designation/whatever of the path? > If yes, what should that additional tag be? > I would probably tag it - according to what it looked like - either as highway=cycleway or as highway=footway and then add foot=yes (or permissive) and bicycle=yes (or permissive) to make it clear that it is OK both for cyclists and pedestrians. If I were to be more pedantic I might even add designation=unknown to make it clear that I didn't know the formal legal status (although in practice I would regard =unknown as the default value for designation=*). > The current wiki definition of highway=cycleway is "mainly or > exclusively for bicycles". This I cannot be sure of from the > aerial imagery, nor can I of anything to do with the law. > What to do... >The fact that the wiki says that highway=cycleway is "mainly or exclusively for bicycles" is, imho, one of the main causes of all the confusion over highway=cycleway and highway=footway. In England, at least, it is very rare for a cycleway to be unavailable for pedestrians (with the important exclusion of dedicated cycleways that are segregated - physically or by markings - both from the vehicular highway and from the footway alongside vehicular highways ). They are almost always multiuser ways. But there is an understandable tendency to use highway=cycleway for both cases as there is no obvious way to differentiate. > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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