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cite="mid:e728e9b0-e7f8-4d0b-854c-8a6383b5492b@saint-etienne.no"><span
class="moz-txt-underscore"><span class="moz-txt-tag">_</span>Mainly<span
class="moz-txt-tag">_</span></span>, I have concerns about the
concept of a cycle path or foot path being attendant to or a
sidepath of another road.
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In Norway, we no longer have cycle paths and foot paths. We have
cycleways, footways and carriageways. It may seem like a small
difference in terminology, but it makes a large difference as part
of an overall mindset. Roads are roads, and different types of
roads are simply meant for different types of travel.
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<p>I get your point, but that's not how urban planning and
development usually thinks and works (unfortunately). In the
reality of the vast majority of places in the world, a "street" is
considered to consist of a central carriageway (mostly with
motorised traffic) and side paths for walking or cycling that are
related to each other. Both physically and, let's say,
athmospherically.<br>
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The core of the proposal is that there is no sufficient "street
concept" in OSM to group these elements. Instead, the "motorcar
area" (i.e. carriageway) is often perceived as representing the
entire street - for example, it is common and often discussed
practice that only this line gets a name attribute (and many
mappers still prefer to capture sidewalks and cycle paths only as
an attribute of this street line). From the point of view of a
data consumer, there is no relation between a sidepath and a road
anymore. Of course you can say that is the problem of the data
consumer. Or we can offer more convenience.</p>
<p>What you can use it for is very diverse, a few possibilities are
described in the proposal and there are even projects that already
make use of it. It is difficult and maybe not useful to elaborate
this in more detail, because it ultimately depends on the specific
needs and creativity of data consumers.<br>
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