[Tagging] highway=path for *all* mixed foot/bicycle highways?

[Tomas Straupis]

2020-01-28, an, 20:15 Jmapb rašė:
> Thanks for the background. Looks like Richard Fairhurst already reverted the "shared foot/bicycle must be path" assertion on the cycleway=* page. J

  Yet for ten years or even more the logic was that if the same way is
designated for both pedestrians and cyclists, it cannot be tagged with
highway=footway - as it is for cyclists as well, it cannot be tagged
with highway=cycleway because it is for pedestrians as well, so such
shared ways for this long period were tagged as
highway=path+bicycle=designated+foot=designated. This has also been
the preset in the main OSM editor - JOSM. This is in documentation and
maps for ten or more years.

  Are there any reasons why this must change now? Any benefits?

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Tomas