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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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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Is there a general
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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<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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