[Tagging] changing wiki , changing definitions

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 07:13:53 UTC 2014


I think that describing this situation as tagging for renderer would be a
good idea.


2014-08-19 9:04 GMT+02:00 Pee Wee <piewie32 at gmail.com>:

> This year the bicycle=use_sidepath was accepeted. After the vote I made a wiki
> page <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:bicycle%3Duse_sidepath>.
> I've just noticed that the page was changed in such a way that it also
> changes the definition. The tag can only be applied in counties that have
> compulsary cycleways.  I've seen that a sentence was changed now saying
> "You can use this tag where a road has a parallel compulsory *or
> designated *cycleway " (I've changed that back) . There is also a section
> added
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:bicycle%3Duse_sidepath#Usage_in_cities>
> that I'm not happy with. It now seems that this tag should be used if the
> mapper thinks it is safer for cyclist to take the cycleway instead of the
> main road. (Do Spain and Great Britain have compulsory cycleways?)
>
>
> Sure I could send an email to the person that changed this but what do you
> think is the best way to deal with this changing wiki pages? Or should I
> just accept that these things happen and change it back and send an email?
>
> Cheers
> PeeWee32
>
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