[Tagging] Cartpath RFC

[Jez Nicholson]

Personally, I need a really strong proposal to convince me to vote for a
new top-level highway tag. I would want something that describes the unique
characteristics of the road rather than it being specifically for golf
carts.

For a sub-tag below highway=service I need a less-strong argument.

On Sat, 26 Dec 2020, 00:13 Minh Nguyen, <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us>
wrote:

> 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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