<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Jonathan Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:openstreetmap@jonno.cix.co.uk">openstreetmap@jonno.cix.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Steve Bennett wrote:<br>
<br>
> [...] I tend to<br>
<div class="im">> believe I can ride my bike wherever the hell I want unless there's a<br>
> sign saying otherwise.<br>
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</div>That's fine for your personal decision making. However, for OSM we need<br>
to provide people with as much information as possible so they can make<br>
their own, possibly different, decisions.<br></blockquote><div><br>In case it wasn't clear, I was using the above statement to explain my difficult in judging accurately where bikes are actually "allowed" to go. There aren't many signs. Real observation-based tagging (surface, smoothness, width etc...) seems like less shakey ground.<br>
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If you don't *know* the legal situation this gets tricky, but that's<br>
something we can clear up within each country eventually.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br>Ok.<br><br>Steve <br></div></div><br>