On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 19:55, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 6:51 PM Jarek Piórkowski <ja...@piorkowski.ca> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 19:45, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 6:14 PM Yaro Shkvorets <shkvor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> That passage should be rewritten. That's certainly not the common >> >> practice. >> >> I personally tag `highway=cycleway` where bikes significantly outnumber >> >> foot traffic, `highway=footway` where foot traffic significantly >> >> outnumbers bikes, `highway=path` for the rest. >> >> If you need to explicitly disallow bikes or foot you use access tags. >> > >> > This seems a little iffy. I mean, footway is obvious, is it designed for >> > people on foot, and too narrow for oncoming bikes to meet? Footway. City >> > sidewalk? Footway. A path through a park? Probably a path (especially >> > if it's multiuse), unless it's really narrow, then footway. Has lanes but >> > isn't a street? Cycleway. >> >> Around Toronto I've generally seen (and also tagged myself), for >> routes through a park, footway if it's paved or otherwise major, path >> if it's unpaved or overgrown or status uncertain. So I interpret >> highway=footway to be "higher grade" than highway=path - the opposite >> of your interpretation, I fear... > > Not higher grade, just not as specialized in its design purpose and what > other use modes will not find their needs particularly addressed if it's > allowed at all. In a venn diagram of bridleway, cycleway and footway, path > is in the middle.
Hm, that's not how I think about it. In my mental map: bridleway doesn't exist (as a big-city mapper); path is something for people but nothing major; footway is usually paved with a lot of pedestrians on it and if not a sidewalk maybe bikes but not majority; cycleway is usually paved with relatively a lot of bicycles on it (can be unpaved if out in nature). I see now that wiki disagrees, I'll try to adjust my mapping accordingly... JOSM's rendering of footway as solid line and path as dashed doesn't help. --Jarek _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
