When in doubt, include the tag. I believe all motorways and their links in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia all have bicycle=* to explicitly handle the situation (though almost all of highway=motorway(_link) bicycle=yes (or designated, which a few are, like 26 climbing sylvan from downtown) in those areas could also be tagged with foot=yes and hitchhiking=no On Jul 10, 2013 1:17 PM, "André Pirard" <a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2013-07-10 15:35, Maarten Deen wrote : > > Is there a deeper meaning of adding foot=yes or bicycle=yes to > highway=track or highway=path without adding other limitations? I thought > track and path are by default routable for foot and bicycle, so IMHO they > add nothing. > > I think it's a question of defaults. If one exists and the value matches, > then the key is not needed. Otherwise, it is. > Some persons have tackled the definition of defaults like > Relations/Proposed/Defaults<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Defaults> > . > I make no claim about the value of that proposition or another, just > stumbled upon. But while reading this list I have often thought that > defaults vary from one place to another and that phrases "looking right > before crossing" depend much on default-driving-side=right/left. This fact > is obvious to someone driving or, hopefully, crossing but not to a program. > I had sketched an idea about defining defaults for traffic zones, like > urban speed limit, but without success. > I think that if defaults were defined, much time would be spared > repeatedly discussing everybody's opinion about one or another. > > Cheers, > > André. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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