I've reached a stalemate with another mapper about the tagging of a rural shared use path. He mapped the path initially a few years ago as highway=cycleway and I've recently changed it to highway=path, bicycle=designated & foot=designated (as well as the other tags that apply to it). My reasons for changing it, is that it is shared use path with a greater number of people of foot than bicycle (about 5:2), the path is designed for both types of user & not the whole route has a blacktop surface (therefore not suitable for road bikes, these bits do have their surface tagged though so that shouldn't be an issue for routers). His argument for keeping it as highway=cycleway is because his render is not configured to show highway=path & bicycle=designated the same as highway=cycleway. Other reasons are because it is part of the NCN Route 88, as such it is "cared" for sustrans. Also it is a well used cycle route. Both of which are very much true, and are tagged with the appropriate relations to reflect this.
I've put this to the Data Working Group, and they have suggested that I ask the community here to see what the consensus is. I don't mind what the outcome is, however I am not satisfied with the sole reason being because it renders differently. https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/94598759 Thank you, -- *T*homas *J*
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