[OSM-talk] new proposed_features: "highway=path" + new access-core-value "designated"

[Mario Salvini]

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Path


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Provide a value for a nonspecific or multi-use path.
Also read: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Trail because 
this approval arise from it.

     * "highway=path"

     * "foot/bicycle/horse/xc_ski/...=designated" (add new core-value to 
Key:access")


"highway=path" would be a much better way to combine footway, cycleway, 
bridleway in one highway-value.
By adding a "designated" to the core-values of "Key:access" we can 
capture the real world even more accurate, without losing information.

     * e.g. bicycle=designated, foot=yes for a cycleway which allows 
foot, or foot=designated, bicycle=yes for the opposite

     * e.g. 
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Zeichen_240.svg or 
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Zeichen_241.svg 
signed ways are nether a foot- nor a cycleway; they are both by 
definition, but to can't take this correctly at the moment. If there 
would be only "highway=path" you can catch it totally right -> 
highway=way bicycle=designed foot=designed. A sideeffect is also, that 
the renderers can perfectly adjust themselves to their's needs.
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I hope you all will discuss a lot :)

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mario