Andrew Chadwick wrote: > In this case, Richard's right in that it's an old bridleway still > used by horses for field access. But it's also been half-surfaced > nicely for bicycle use, and has blue low-flying-bicycles signs > along it. And a sign saying "bridleway" and hoofprints. Oh, and > nearby riding schools and horse mounting steps. And lots of > foot traffic, plus private motor access. It's pretty much the > definition of shared use in path form.
Oooh, and it's the proposed NCN 57 too. (Though I expect NCN 57 might actually end up going a different way, at least at first.) Clearly the fact that it's officially a bridleway is worth recording, because it implies all sorts of useful legal permissions and stuff. Yet clearly most users will actually use it as a cycleway, because there are more bikes in Oxford than horses. So three roughly equivalent suggestions: 1. highway=bridleway, surface=paved 2. highway=cycleway, designation=bridleway 3. create two parallel ways: tag one of them as above, and the other as highway=bridleway, surface=something_that_implies_mud. Potlatch can do this for you with its parallel way feature (Other Editors Are Available). cheers another cycling Richard from Oxfordshire -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-highway%3Dcycle-footway-tp22661251p22663109.html Sent from the OpenStreetMap - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
