On 10/12/2020 12:24, Thomas Jarvis wrote:
(snipped)
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.
... actually I got a PM about this; I hadn't realised it was intended as
a DWG question!
For completeness, the bits of my reply that were the answer to the
question were as follows:
Around the world people use both of these taggings, and often
renderers will render them the same.
In the UK, something like I imagine
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/582204090/history
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/582204090/history> to be would
typically be tagged “cycleway” even though it’s shared-use; in
Germany it’d be typically “path”. Someone once did a bit of mailing
list archaeology about the origins of “highway=path” within OSM (it
wasn’t one of the original ones) and there are a couple of theories
about where it came from.
Some people have strong views on this - for example
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richard/diary/20333
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richard/diary/20333> .
(and in answer to the renderer question)
Indeed, “how it renders in a particular renderer” is rarely a good
reason to tag something a particular way.
However, it doesn’t look from
http://osm.mapki.com/history/way.php?id=582204090
<http://osm.mapki.com/history/way.php?id=582204090> that the status
quo here was “cycleway” before you changed it, so I’d probably lean
that way.
Best Regards,
Andy
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