Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Steve Bennett wrote: >> Instinctively, I want to tag it a cycleway...but there's absolutely >> nothing to justify that. Nowhere will you see any primacy given to >> cycling over walking. Conundrum. > > highway=cycleway doesn't mean cycles have priority. It just means it's > intended for pedestrian and cycle use. There's no suggestion of primacy > for either. > > (Incidentally, I missed out the footnote from my last mail, which was > going to say that in some countries (like the UK) cycles are permitted > on bridleways; nonetheless it's most sensible to treat highway=bridleway > as a path for pedestrian and horse use, and tag over and above that if > it's a cyclable one.)
http://www.horsedata.co.uk/Jargon.htm I think nicely covers most of the options. But 'cycleway' is still a rather woolly term, with many specially constructed cycle routes using that term only for a fully-segregated cycle route, however sustrans.org.uk works on the basis that the national cycle network is also for 'walkers, wheelchair uses and horseriders' and this is where the 'path' designation sort of came from since many vehicle free routes are not footway, cycleway or bridalway. Personally I would only use cycleway where the 'path' was specifically restricted to cycles for reasons of safety - such as the segregated routes that form part of a main vehicle way, lanes on the side such as described in http://www.cycling.bham.ac.uk/other/RoadDesignTerminology.shtml but at this point we are getting back to the 'micromapping' question on when does a single 'way' get replaced with a group of parallel ways each with their correct designation ..... around here it is the footpaths which do not follow directly the 'roadway' and many of them are 'pavements' where cycling is specifically banned. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
