Am 04.05.2011 10:31, schrieb Richard Mann: > Relations between adjacent ways - yuk - proximity tests between > near-parallel ways are computationally horrible. It isn't adequate to > just say the two are related and hope the data consumer will sort out > the mess. The cycleway key is applied to the road to say what the > cycle facility is on that corridor (so I use cycleway:left=track to > say there's legitimate cycle access on the adjacent sidewalk, and > lcn:left=track to indicate it's part of a local cycle network).
+1 > Using highway=path just because it's shared-use - yuk. The norm in the > UK is to use whichever of footway/cycleway feels right (basically > cycleway if it's nice and wide, and bikes are allowed, footway if it's > a bit narrow or bikes aren't allowed), and set access tags > (bicycle=yes) if the default for the highway value isn't appropriate. > highway=path is better left for the countryside. IMO - others > disagree. We just had a discussion on talk-de and the german community about this issue. The problem with footway/cycleway is that they mix access and highway. Often their width is greater than 2m and sometimes they are used for emergency access. I know two places in my home town where they are even used for residential access. The law in Germany even says, that you have to use cyleways. ( There are exceptions, I know, but this is a thread by its own ). For me there is now reason to use footway/cyleway at all. Cheers fly _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
