On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Richard Welty <[email protected]>wrote:
> within the US, i am increasingly seeing things that might once have just > been called bike paths > that are now designated as multi use trails, e.g. the Mohawk Hudson Bike > Path here in Albany > has become the Mohawk-Hudson Bike-Hike Trail. Likewise, the Pinellas Trail > in the St. Pete > Florida area is officially described as a multi-use trail for the cases > where it using old railway > roadbeds. > > highway=path+bicycle=designated+foot=designated > > rather accurately describes the intended official usage pattern of this > class of path. i much > prefer it to anything cobbed together around highway=cycleway, which is > inherently asymmetric > where the official policy for the trail is quite symmetric. > > As long as you don't mean anything very precise (and don't intend everyone to understand anything very precise) by bicycle=designated and foot=designated then I've no problem with that. BTW "Cycleway" in the UK doesn't indicate any bias to cyclists (in fact pedestrians have legal priority). Richard
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