[Tagging] Tagging highway=cycleway without explicit knowledgeof the law?

[Pieren]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> Can someone at least write a bot to go around changing path to footway or
> vice-versa if the surface=* doesn't match?  Or (and I know this is never
> going to happen), put some code on the servers to disallow highway=path +
> surface=paved and highway=footway + surface=unpaved?
>

No because the path/footway is not necessarily related to the surface.
You can find footways in a park where surface=gravel or multi-use path
where surface=paved.

Pieren