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color=#0000ff size=2>In order better to understand your point of view could you
explain - perhaps with an example or two - what you mean by the "basic physical
status" of a "path/road". In my innocence, highway=path does this (but I like
this tag as little as you do as it is so ill-defined); so does highway=track
(but in this group I have found widely different understandings of what 'track'
means); but highway=cycleway - imho - does not describe 'basic physical status'
but rather 'intended use' (after all a cyclist could ride along a mountain path,
a farm track or a paved and dedicated cycleway). I do increasingly tend to agree
with you, however, on the use of designation= (not actually a new tag but one
that has to date not been much used it seems - I am just starting to use it
myself in the way you describe). I would really like better to understand what
you are suggesting here.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Magneto color=#0000ff size=2>Mike Harris</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Richard Mann
[mailto:richard.mann.westoxford@googlemail.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 23 March 2009
18:14<BR><B>To:</B> talk@openstreetmap.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [OSM-talk]
highway=cycle&footway<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Tagging is there to allow people who haven't been there to figure out
what is there.</DIV>
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<DIV>highway=path just exports the problem to other tags</DIV>
<DIV>highway=(whatever the legal designation is) just exports the problem to
other tags</DIV>
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<DIV>this just makes everything more complicated for everybody</DIV>
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<DIV>I say:</DIV>
<DIV>highway should encode the basic physical status of the path/road</DIV>
<DIV>a new tag, designation should encode legal status, if people want to
record this</DIV>
<DIV>access should encode topup rules to make routing software work</DIV>
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<DIV>Richard</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>