Hi! Am 12.12.2009 14:53, schrieb Pieren: > I don't understand why this discussion is (again) happening on this > list.
Because there is an unsolved problem and about every two months somebody stumbles over it. > Every two monthes, the australians and americans are complaining > here that the current definitions of cycleway/path are not clear and > should be redefined or even better deprecated. And I thought the Germans were complaining loudest. :-) It is simply true, the wiki is very fuzzy and the topic needs a much better definition. > I just wanted to say > that what is on the wiki in english is a compromise for all countries > since more than a year now. The tags apply in a huge amount of > objects. If a country is not happy about the definition, he can > improve it in its own wiki page with its local rules/practices. This > is done by many countries now in the wiki. It seems that australiens > and americans are just considering the problem differently because the > main wiki pages are in english and they feel responsible to adapt the > definitions for the whole world. > So please, go ahead with your own definitions and usages of > path/cycleway but in your local-talk-list's and wiki's. No, you are wrong there. We already have a lot of contradictory descriptions in the wiki - for the same tags. The basic cycleway/footway have about 6 different interpretations, all anchored somewhere in the wiki and all disputed. There is no consent globally, neither is there a consent within a single country. Even the question whether the tags should be used locally with different meanings or globally with a unified meaning is still under discussion. Read http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Consolidation_footway_cycleway_path for more details. bye Nop _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
