On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:13:52 Paul Johnson wrote: > I believe them to be culturally equivallent
But they really are not. A bicycle boulevard is designed as a through route for something: bicycles. A living streets on the other hand is not designed as a through route for anything at all, not even pedestrians. The pedestrians it "protects" are not people going some distance, but kids playing in the street and people walking from their parked car to the front door of their house. Just look at the traffic sign used for living streets: <http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Nederlands_verkeersbord_G5.svg> If you want to look at something in the US that has the same function (but not the same traffic rules) as a European living street, then it would be all those suburban cul-de-sacs. If there is nothing in the US that has the same function and traffic rules as a European living street, then don't tag anything as one. For a bicycle boulevard tags like highway=cycleroad or highway=residential+cycleway=cyclestreet far better describe what it is. -- m.v.g., Cartinus _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
