On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:30 PM,  <j...@jfeldredge.com> wrote:
> I suspect that I am not the only one who has been confused by the 
> totally-unrelated meanings of highway=track (a minor, rural road) and 
> cycleway=track (a cycleway along side an automobile road).  I don't know 
> which one came first, but it is unfortunate that the naming scheme wasn't 
> more consistent.

Sorry. English has a habit of doing that, but it matches what highway
engineers/planners call them. They wouldn't pick "cycleway" as the
name for the key, however (they'd use cycle_facility or
cycle_farcility).

Richard

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