<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 2:37 AM Jmapb <<a href="mailto:jmapb@gmx.com" target="_blank">jmapb@gmx.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi all, just noticed this passage on the cycleway=* wiki page (<br>
<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cycleway" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cycleway</a> ):<br>
<br>(This was added by wiki user Aaronsta last May, with no change description.)<br>
<br>
Does anyone know if there was a discussion, here or elsewhere, that led<br>
to this change?<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, no. The same user also changed the Australian tagging guidelines without discussion, which we didn't notice till last October:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2019-October/013009.html" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2019-October/013009.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>and they were reverted. Didn't notice at the time that he'd also edited the parent page.<br></div><div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">My own impression over the years has been that mappers use<br>
highway=cycleway on anything that primarily for bicycle traffic, and add<br>
access keys for any other permitted traffic. Similarly for<br>
highway=footway. So "highway=cycleway + foot=yes" and "highway=footway +<br>
bicycle=designated" are quite common. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Using cycleway/footway to map primary/secondary paths is a informal but common practice.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Is there a general consensus that<br>
these are better mapped as highway=path?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> I had a go at summarising the case against path back in October:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2019-October/013017.html">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2019-October/013017.html</a></div><div> </div></div></div>