Mike Harris
> -----Original Message----- > From: tagging-boun...@openstreetmap.org > [mailto:tagging-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Steve Bennett > Sent: 14 December 2009 09:18 > To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools > Subject: Re: [Tagging] Tagging highway=cycleway without > explicit knowledgeof the law? > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Frederik Ramm > <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > > I think I am having a deja-vu. The very reason people added the > > highway=path proposal (almost exactly 2 years ago) was to > "provide a > > value for a nonspecific or multi-use path." > > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Path). > > Did it catch on? As I said in my other post, Mapnik renders > it totally differently to either footway or cycleway. Is that > an anomaly or an accurate reflection of current usage? I don't think it caught on in the original meaning ... See my other message .. > > Either way I'm pretty sure that there are lots of > "highway=path" out there intended to mean dirt paths, whereas > I would say both "highway=footway" and "highway=cycleway" > would mean paved by default. ... Disagree ... I don't think I am alone in using "highway=footway" for a designated pedestrian route primarily for pedestrians (adding bicycle=yes in rare cases) that is a 'path' rather than a 'track' - in rural areas 90% of these are unsurfaced footpaths (although often paved in towns). I use "highway=cycleway" for the designated cycleways beside vehicular highways and for the much rarer cases of a track that is sufficiently well-surfaced to be able to ride a bike (but very often gravel or similar rather than paved), that has been created primarily as part of a cycling route (and thus usually carries regional or national cycleway reference number signage) and that is almost always multi-use (adding foot=yes to be clear - but I have yet to find a cycleway other than the beside-vehicular-highway tracks - that does not allow pedestrians) and does not have (to my knowledge) a legal status (which in England would usually be a public bridleway or restricted byway given that cycling is not usually allowed on public-footpaths - there are a few exceptions, usually urban). I am not saying thatI am right - just reminding that different people in different places do different things and assumptions about defaults are therefore very unsafe! > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
