[OSM-newbies] cycle map rendering

[Ed Loach]

Craig wrote:

> The main problem is the cycle map doesn't render anything
> tagged with
> highway=path.
> 
> This has been requested many times, over the past few months,
> but it
> still hasn't been fixed.

Perhaps see this post from the talk list last month:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-August/040021.htm
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which suggests Andy is working on it.

The problem with highway=path is it isn't always clear whether
bicycles can use it or not. You wouldn't want to break the cycle map
layer by drawing paths as suitable for bicycles when they might not
be. But then you wouldn't want to break it by assuming that no
highway=path ways can be used. A bit of a no win situation. But
showing them as dotted lines in the same way as footpaths would at
least show their existence, and then perhaps refining the stylesheet
to also use access tags (bicycle<>no perhaps) to decide whether
bicycles can legally use the path could add extra refinement to the
rendering at a later date.

Ed