On Thursday 03 October 2013 05:47:10 Marc Gemis wrote: > From the page mentioned by Gilbert, I discovered > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions > #Belgium. It states e.g. that the key designated is useless in Belgium: > > "There's no reason for a "designated" access tag in Belgium as there > is no reason why one has more rights over the other on any of these > highway types when different vehicle types have access to a road. > "designated" is therefore synonym with "yes". Footways could both be > signed with a sign that doesn't show a pedestrian at all, and one that > does, so basing a designated tag on traffic signs is also flawed."
It means that there is no reason for a "designated" value for access tags (like bicycle=designated), because it doesn't give any special meaning that isn't already included with a simple "yes" value. The example given is one like this: you could have a way signed with a C3 with an exception for cyclists. Or you could have a sign like this http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Belgium-trafficsign-C5-C7-C9.svg that prohibits cars, mopeds and motorcycles. There's no real difference for cyclists here, but for one common interpretation of what "designated" means (it has signs with a picture of that vehicle on it), it would mean that the first one would be bicycle=designated, while the second one wouldn't. But I guess the wording can be a little bit better, this was written when the designated tag was only just being introduced, and one could still look at cycleways with blue round signs as bicycle=designated. Ben _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
