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On 1/5/10 6:56 PM, Richard Mann wrote:
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<div>On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Alex Mauer <span><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:hawke@hawkesnest.net">hawke@hawkesnest.net</a>></span>
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<blockquote>highway=path+access=no+bicycle=designated for the former
and<br>
highway=path+bicycle=yes for the latter.<br>
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<div>Each to their own, but I'd prefer:</div>
<div>highway=cycleway+designation=official_cycleway (or
whatever) (for those officially signposted) and</div>
<div>highway=cycleway (for those that are not officially signposted
but are otherwise "just as good")</div>
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<div>You don't really need the access=no (or foot=no) for the former;
it's distinctly rare that there's no route for pedestrians alongside.
Using bicycle=designated does not give the precision required (sorry
Alex, I know it's your pet scheme, but I don't think it works). </div>
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<div>Ekkehart - other than the obvious pain of adding another tag to
the legions of official cycleways in Germany, is there any real problem
with this approach?</div>
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it's very bicycle focused.<br>
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within the US, i am increasingly seeing things that might once have
just been called bike paths<br>
that are now designated as multi use trails, e.g. the Mohawk Hudson
Bike Path here in Albany<br>
has become the Mohawk-Hudson Bike-Hike Trail. Likewise, the Pinellas
Trail in the St. Pete<br>
Florida area is officially described as a multi-use trail for the cases
where it using old railway<br>
roadbeds.<br>
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highway=path+bicycle=designated+foot=designated<br>
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rather accurately describes the intended official usage pattern of this
class of path. i much<br>
prefer it to anything cobbed together around highway=cycleway, which is
inherently asymmetric<br>
where the official policy for the trail is quite symmetric.<br>
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richard<br>
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