On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Jakka <[email protected]> wrote:
> highway=footway > access=no > bicycle=yes > Jakka, this actually means that only cyclists are allowed. as Andre pointed out (by linking to the Belgian rules) highway=footway means a "road" with vehicle=no,foot=yes. Thus something where only pedestrians are allowed. By then explicitly marking it as access=no, you remove all access rights (also those for pedestrians). And you only turn access on for cyclists by adding bicycle=yes. With respect to "except that bicycle=yes is meaningless if there's no other tag forbidding bikes such as access=no." The "access=no" for cyclists is part of highway=footway, so you do not have to tag that explicitly. So yes, in the case of highway=cycleway,bicycle=yes the latter is meaningless. Why ? Well highway=cycleway means foot=yes,bicycle=yes; so there is no tag forbidding cyclist. Please note that in some countries (e.g. Germany) highway=cycleway means bicycle=yes, foot=no ! To summarise: there is no need to explicitly tag what is implicitly stated by the type of highway. For that see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions#Belgium Only tag exceptions to those rules nothing fuzzy about that. regards & happy mapping m
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