On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Roy Wallace <waldo000...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let me say back to you what you just said: "A cycleway is a cycleway > if someone would call this a bike path". IMHO that's not helpful. > Well, I*M*HO, it's close to perfect. If you (well, a reasonable person with some common sense when it comes to bike paths - not something Roy would admit to :)) looked through a map, and every time you saw something mapped as a bike path, it corresponded to something you thought of as a bike path - that would be perfect. The primary purpose of OSM is to create useful maps, not to provide some kind of look-up service for the real world. "Can someone tell me how wide that gravel track is down near that shed? Oh, 1.2m, thanks OSM!" - no, it's more like "How do I get to Jim's house - oh OSM says there's a bike path, I'll try that". But I fear we're about to go down some very old, tired ground here, so Roy, may I suggest you tread carefully :) Steve
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