For simplicity, I think it should be no big problem changing the wiki to suggest using cycleway=separate, instead of suggesting not adding the cycleway=* tag.
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16/01/2018 10:17, "Christian Müller" wrote: >> >> But a simple >> (read ideally one or two tags) attribute that enables data users to >> bisect a set of motorized ways by the sidewalk or sidepath property >> may simplify a lot of queries. >> > > sidewalk=separate is currently used a fair bit to indicate that "there is a > sidewalk mapped separately, with its own tags on it": > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/sidewalk#values . Unfortunately the > values used for cycleway are a bit more complex: > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/cycleway#values - it's not clear to > me which of those tags have the meaning "X is mapped separately", with the > possible exception of the relatively low use > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/cycleway=separate . > > "sideride" is used even less, undocumented, and doesn't mean anything in > English (so it's difficult to even guess what it might mean). > > "replacing" sidewalk=* with e.g. sidewalk:left=* is not a good idea since > there are 1,186,931 existing objects. For comparison > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/sidewalk%3Aleft shows only 504 uses. > > > Best Regards, > Andy > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- Fernando Trebien +55 (51) 9962-5409 "Nullius in verba." _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
