[Potlatch-dev] What do the new cycleway values mean?

[Richard Fairhurst]

Richard Mann wrote:

> They almost certainly mean shared with peds and white-paint segregated
> from peds (as opposed to "track" which the Germans think is completely
> segregated).

Yep. I'm sure there's room for more help text and little pop-ups  
beside particular settings (and, eventually, for country-specific  
presets, but that's a fair way down the road/cycleway).

> I think there should probably be policy, something like the value must
> represent >?5% of current uses.

Potlatch is a conscious (collective) act of authorship, not really a  
democracy. You can't design coherent beginner-friendly software, or  
documentation, democratically - as the wiki sadly proves.

One of the JOSM developers the other day described Potlatch  
development as "more autocratic than JOSM" and that's fair comment. We  
try to preserve the original OSM ethos of hardcore do-ocracy. :)

cheers
Richard