On 12/08/2009, at 12.14, Pieren wrote: > 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 ?
This is the kind of confusion/contradiction that happens when people start encoding traffic rules & regulations into map tagging. Traditionally, a road map will tell you how to get from A to B, and the size of the road, not what traffic rules apply to the various road segments. I think it is time to separate tagging of traffic laws into a separate namespace from purely geographical map features. The information is useful, but the current concept of OSM tagging is not designed to deal with it in a systematic manner. Cheers, Morten _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
