[Tagging] Cartpath RFC

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 18:10 2020-12-23, Minh Nguyen đã viết:
> I've left out a lot of details, but hopefully this helps get people up 
> to speed about why the proposal takes the rare step of introducing a new 
> highway=* value. There's an interesting tension here between the needs 
> of editor, renderer, and router developers, but hopefully an amicable 
> solution is possible.

Aside from the technical considerations, apparently some places in the 
U.S. go to great lengths to make golf carts a first-class mode of 
transportation. Peachtree City, Georgia, has a citywide network of over 
90 miles of numbered golf cart paths and over 10,000 resident-owned golf 
carts replete with vehicle registration tags. Like most cycleways in the 
U.S., the cart paths are multi-use trails that also permit pedestrians 
and cyclists. [1][2]

Currently, the city's cart paths are all tagged as highway=footway with 
the golf_cart key, but a dedicated highway=* tag would be more accurate. 
Peachtree City may be an outlier, but there are plenty of other examples 
of golf cart communities where these paths would be considered something 
more than just a feature of the golf course.

[1] https://peachtree-city.org/216/Paths-Golf-Carts
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peachtree_City,_Georgia#Golf_carts
[3] https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/62098675

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