2009/2/24 Mike Harris <[email protected]>: > Dave says: > > "I wrote it to do some more complex duplicate removal for the cycle map (as a > pre-processor before osm2pgsql). The key one being highway=path, bicycle=yes > which as far as I can tell is a duplicate of highway=cycleway. It's not > actually rolled out yet though I keep meaning to do the necessary tweaking of > the tool-chain." > > Imho, this may be an illustration of why a bot (or even a pre-processor) > could be problematic. I would see the tag bicycle=yes as meaning that it is > 'possible' to cycle along the path - but that doesn't necessarily make it a > cycleway (highway=cycleway). It might be one - but was it designed primarily > for cyclists? What rights for pedestrians? I'm not advocating highway=path > other than as a last resort but if the character of this path is such that it > can be cycled on then it presumably can be walked on. It's more a question of > whether it was intended primarily as a footway, a cycleway or a multi-user > way?
That's quite right. I really don't understand most highway=path tagging, but I'm fairly confident that as far as the cycle map rendering is concerned these are roughly the same thing. Preprocessors have the advantage in that they don't alter the data for everyone else, and they can make judgements that are known to be at least mostly correct for the target use. Dave _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
