[Tagging] Highway=rest_area on bicycle or foot routes ?

[Stefan Tauner]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 10:22:50 -0600
Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> The primary purpose of a rest area is to have a safe and reasonably
> sanitary place for the traveling public to pull off and take a long nap and
> use a proper toilet.

Can you please state a source for that "primary purpose" and how it is
related to highway=rest_area, which does not mention any of that?

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner