On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: >> therefore, highway=footway, bicycle=designated means highway=cycleway, >> foot=designated, which means highway=path, foot=designated, >> bicycle=designated. >>
No, a highway=footway, bicycle=designated is not the same as highway=cycleway, foot=designated. If you just try to understand the wiki definitions and not over-interpret them, you see that cycleway is mainly/exclusively for bicycles where pedestrians might be allowed or tolerated (depending of the country) and a footway is mainly/exclusively for pedestrians where bicycles might be allowed or tolerated. These definitions feet well for countries where the "mainly/exclusively" role is easy to determin which seems to be the case in Europe. If it is not possible in Australia (or US), then create you Australian:Map Features page like the 33 other countries and write you own refinement of the tag definitions. > Yeah, it's a bit ugly. Should we be deprecating one or the other, or doing > mass updates or something? They can be replaced by a path + *=designated if you like but deprecating the shorthands was massively rejected at the "path" key creation. Pieren _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
