Mike Harris > -----Original Message----- > From: tagging-boun...@openstreetmap.org > [mailto:tagging-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Greg Troxel > Sent: 18 December 2009 13:48 > To: Paul Johnson > Cc: t...@openstreetmap.org; tagging@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] tagging Greenways > > > Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> writes: > > > Sam Vekemans wrote: > > > >> Where the only way i know to map it is to use a relation > and call it > >> "route=greenway" and dont have it render on the cyclemap. > Just map the > >> sections as appropriate. > > > > Greenway is the US/Canadianism for "cycleway." > > I don't follow this. I think that in the US a cycleway would > be called either a "bike path" or "rail trail", depending on origin. > > I would use "greenway" to describe a large linear park that > might contain a bike path and footpaths, as in > > http://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/ > > Using greenway to describe a cycleway seems odd to me, > although I suspect that the term greenway does not have an > established meaning, and people think it means whatever the > local "Foo Greenway" is.
Mike Harris says ... Tentatively ... I fear that 'Greenway' is one of those words where the English language is a bit unhelpful. I certainly recognise the US/Canadian definition from my sojourns there ... But equally I find that here in England it tends to mean a linear way (rather than park), usually multiuser, usually not a public right of way, usually created by a local authority to enhance local leisure / environmental facilities and usually in an urban or suburban area. Maybe we should avoid the term ... And thus the considerable ambiguity? > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.716 / Virus Database: 270.14.113/2573 - Release > Date: 12/18/09 07:35:00 > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
