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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/27/2020 3:53 PM, Andrew Davidson
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        <div class="gmail_quote">The same user also changed the
          Australian tagging guidelines without discussion, which we
          didn't notice till last October:
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          <div>and they were reverted. Didn't notice at the time that
            he'd also edited the parent page.<br>
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            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>
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          <div>Using cycleway/footway to map primary/secondary paths is
            a informal but common practice.<br>
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            consensus that<br>
            these are better mapped as highway=path?<br>
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          <div> I had a go at summarising the case against path back in
            October:</div>
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          <div><a
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    <p>Thanks for the background. Looks like Richard Fairhurst already
      reverted the "shared foot/bicycle must be path" assertion on the
      cycleway=* page. J<br>
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