Jmapb <[email protected]> writes: > Hi all, just noticed this passage on the cycleway=* wiki page ( > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cycleway ): > >> For mapping a separate path (on a separate way) dedicated to cycling >> traffic use highway=cycleway. Foot traffic is restricted on these paths. >> >> * Do not use highway=cycleway on paths for both cyclist and foot >> traffic (such as shared paths). Instead use highway=path with >> bicycle=designated and foot=designated. Add also segregated=yes or >> segregated=no) as applicable. >> * For paths where cycling is not permissible use highway=footway. >> If cycling is permissible even if it is not signed but legally >> permissible on a path, use highway=path (and a combination of the >> segregated key and designated tag as applicable) and not highway=footway. > > (This was added by wiki user Aaronsta last May, with no change description.) > > Does anyone know if there was a discussion, here or elsewhere, that led > to this change?
This smells like wikifiddling. > My own impression over the years has been that mappers use > highway=cycleway on anything that primarily for bicycle traffic, and add > access keys for any other permitted traffic. Similarly for > highway=footway. So "highway=cycleway + foot=yes" and "highway=footway + > bicycle=designated" are quite common. Is there a general consensus that > these are better mapped as highway=path? Overall, I have come to believe that highway=cycleway is *exactly* the same as highway=path bicycle=designated and that any renderer or router that treats them differently is wrong. However there is the messy issue of default surface values, avoidable by tagging the surface. > If so, we might want to consider standardizing the highway=cycleway and > highway=footway wiki pages with this same rule. And also editing the > highway=path page, which currently says it's not for use in urban > situations. The notion of urban vs not is messy. I agree that's been part of the evolving not-really-consensus over the last 10 years. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
