[Talk-is] footpaths vs bikeways and enthusiastic marking

[Karl Palsson]

How come some parts of the foothpath by sæbraut are marked

highway:cycleway

but others are marked, highway:footpath;bicyle:yes ?

Is anyone making any distinction?  Some footpaths are marked footpath, some 
cycleway.

Why have we marked a footway on one side of snorrabraut, but not the other?  Why 
are we marking normal footpaths at all?  If this was an area where cycle access 
was not expected, I'd understand, but it's a residential area, and it's just a 
normal footpath.  Likewise for marking a footpath on the park side of 
Rauðarárstígur.  There's one on both sides, and they're both just regular 
footpaths.  There's also one on every street in that area except 
Skarphéðinsgata.  If you're going to start marking footpaths, you should be 
consistent, otherwise how can anyone know what the map really shows?

On the subject of enthusiastic marking,  marking the police station car park as 
"amenity:parking" is just outright lying.  Likewise marking the entire area of a 
petrol station as amenity:parking.  It's not a parking area!

Do we really need bounding boxes drawn around "suburbs" ?  What's wrong with a 
point marker in the middle of the area?  There's no official street boundaries 
to my knowledge, so marking them as if there were is disengenous.  (Miklatún is 
_not_ in Hlíðar?  says who?  Birkihlíð, reynihlíð, viðihlíð, lerkihlíð, 
beykihlíð are not in Hlíðar either?  Says who?

While we're on the subject of Hlíðar, someone's connected Bólstaðarhlíð all the 
way round again.  Have they removed the concrete barricades there?  That was not 
an accident, that road was deliberately unjoined.  If the road has been opened 
up again by the city, cool :)  but the concrete barricades looked fairly 
permanent :)


Still, I like how much extra stuff is on the map these days.  :)  (I'd 
personally rather see all the roads filled in, properly linked and named, for 
routing purposes, before seeing fire hydrants and shop names in skeifan, but 
each to their own)

Love and Kisses,
Karl P