On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:55 AM, John Smith<delta_foxt...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- On Wed, 12/8/09, Nop <ekkeh...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> Well basically your approach is a variant of the path+acess >> tags. You >> just leave cycleway alone and use it like path, expressing >> all the >> important information in access tags. This is a possible >> way to go if we >> can achieve consent on it, especially on the new tag >> "offical" which is >> required to express the legal road-signed status. > > No it's not, use bicycle=designated like someone else suggested for > indicating explicitly what is on a sign, bicycle=yes if it's suitable/allowed > etc.
It seems that the word "designated" has different interpretations and that's a point to clarify on the wiki. For me, "designated" means "with road sign". Note that in France, pedestrians are not allowed on cycleways. I don't see why we should add "foot=no" now in all cycleways in France. I read somewhere that some motorways in US gives access to bicycles. Does it mean that we have to add "bicycle=no" to all other motorways in the world ? As said, when the way is designated for one mode of transport, then it is easy to define a rule that everybody understand: - only one road sign "designated for bicycle" : use highway=cycleway - only one road sign "designated for pedestrian" : use highway=footway For all other cases, use highway=path Is that so complicated ? When the cycleway gives access to pedestrians by local laws but it's not expressed by a road sign, then add you country/county/region/whatever in the list of implied values here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions For the German case, where the road sign is for both (bicycle and foot) : use highway=path + bicycle=designated + foot=designated as it is already suggested in the wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpath/Examples) (and remove the highway=cycleway+foot=designated alternative because this is exactly such things that create so much confusion). Pieren _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
