On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll restate it: every way or path *especially* suitable. More suitable than > average. Much more suitable than average, if you like. > > Anyway, I'm obviously not getting my message across, so I'm going to have to > think about how to express it more clearly. I'm not trying to turn OSM into > a bike project - I'm actually just trying to work out a definition of > cycleway that people can agree on and that is useful.
The way I see it is that highway=cycleway and highway=bridleway are legacies from before OSM had access tags (foot=, bicycle-, horse= etc.). The original meaning for cycleway and bridleway have disappeared so now cycleway, bridleway and footway are synonyms with slightly different defaults for the access tags.. Just to be clear, highway=cycleway is shorthand for highway=footway + bicycle=yes and highway=bridleway is shorthand for highway=footway + horse=yes. There's no need for this "definition creep" nonsense. BTW, footway is a bad name. If OSM was starting over it I'd suggest that it should be highway=narrowway or similar, used for all ways that are narrower than a track. Nick. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
