On 06/08/2015 12:15, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
a cycleway is nothing "physical", it is a legal setting. Or what do you mean with
"physically"?
... since we seem to have dipped into "highway=path" again :)
The English word "cycleway" refers to a physical object - which
archetype is this-thing-that-I'm-mapping most like, not a "legal
setting". You're legally allowed to cycle on England-and-Wales "public
bridleways" but that doesn't make them all "cycleways".
Much more elquently than me, Richard Fairhurst has explained the problem
previously in opinion pieces such as
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Duck_tagging and
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richard/diary/20333 .
Obviously you can do stuff with surface / width / smoothness / tracktype
/ mtb:scale / whatever else, but it's a bit like trying to describe
something through the medium of interpretative dance - it misses the
"this is what this thing is mostly like" part. There are places where
"path" really is the best description (I'm currently mapping lots of
them in a large area of nearby woodland), but it is something of a "last
resort".
Cheers,
Andy
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