--- On Sun, 23/8/09, Tobias Knerr <o...@tobias-knerr.de> wrote:
> Using the same top level tag (e.g. highway=conveyor) would
> only make
> sense if applications could use both the same way, and I
> don't believe
> there are apps that can. Routers don't need conveyors for
> goods for
> their calculations, and a rendered map displaying it like a
> pedestrian
> conveyor transport would certainly irritate users. So using
> the same tag
> would only result in making evaluating (and tagging) the
> conveyor=* tag
> required.
Which already happens with those pushing path tags instead of footway etc...
highway=path, foot=designated...
So I don't see that as a good enough reason to have multiple highway tags.
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