> On Aug 6, 2015, at 7:49 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > and you can also make combinations without having to decide for footway, > cycleway or bridleway. Also, without any further access tags, path is neutral > and open to all unmotorized means of transport (unlike footway, cycleway etc.)
In a national park, where I have a trail through the wilderness, where foot and horse traffic is allowed, but not bikes - this makes perfect sense. These are the rules for the the trails in my state parks. mountain bikes (for recreation) are only allowed on fire roads (tracks). So… It is a path. Where horses and people are allowed. If I have a cycleway that is built to cycleway specs (paved, rounded turns, lanes, and no stairs), but peds are still allowed, then it is a cycleway with foot access =yes I would never consider tagging that as =path with foot & cycle =yes. I would consider a cycleway tagged as such mis-tagged and correct it. It plainly is not a path. it is a concrete walkway built to accommodate bicycle (commuter & daily life) traffic. It is built to a much higher grade than a path, and expectations of usage is very different. If I have a sidewalk along a road, where it may be implicitly signed that bikes are allowed (like most of Japan), but it is built to footway specs (tons of poles, driveways, road crossings) - it is a =footway with bicycle=yes. The amount of ambiguous walkways based on their grade and construction for usage is very rare. And none of them could be confused with a 60cm wide dirt path through the forest. walking/biking to the mall and walking/biking through the wilderness have very different expectations of grade of the way. There are variances - but: Sidewalk ≠ Path Motorway ≠ track we reflect that in the roadway tags. it should be equally obvious in the non-roadway tags as well. We don’t have a highway=main tag that could cover tracks to motorwayish roads, because that is bad ambiguous tagging! this issue with path exactly the same, IMO. Javbw.
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