... Part way with James but recognising Jacek's point it would need adding bicycle=permissive or bicycle=yes as appropriate so that the cycle renderers pick up. Where appropriate (e.g. often in the UK) the use of designation=public_footpath (meaning that the default is bicycle=no unless otherwise modified with bicycle= ) or designation=public_bridleway (meaning that the default is bicycle=yes unless otherwise modified with bicycle= ). The adoption of the designation= tag in the UK seems to be a good solution to the dilemmas otherwise created by trying to compromise between tagging what is there on the ground and tagging for legal access status (with both purposes being valid objectives for at least a subset of users).
Mike Harris -----Original Message----- From: Jacek Konieczny [mailto:jaj...@jajcus.net] Sent: 30 April 2009 12:00 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering of footways with bicycle=yes On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:36:43AM +0100, James Stewart wrote: > There are lots of paths that are primarily footpaths, but bikes can go > on them. I think that cycleway is best kept for paths that are > designed and designated for bicycles. Sure. > For example in our local park bikes can go on all the paths, but there > are some specific divided cycle paths too. (We are in Scotland so > bikes can legally go anywhere that pedestrians can go, more or less) So such foot path rendered as a foot path only is not a problem for you, as you know that means bicycles may go there. In Poland generally bicycles are forbidden on ways for pedestrians, with many exceptions (if you go with a child, if other way is too far, if it is a sidewalk of a street where cars may go over specific speed…). And pedestrians are welcome on designated cycle-only ways. But many cycle ways are designated for both bicycles and pedestrians. So there is difference between highway=footway, highway=footway,bicycle=yes, highway=cycleway and highway=cycleway,foot=yes and it would be really good if all those could be distinguished, at least on a cycle map. And I agree that marking a footway a bicycleway only because bicycles my go there is kind of abuse and tagging for renderers (which have the data in other tags anyway). Greets, Jacek _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
