[Tagging] highway=cycleway vs highway=residential/service/etc.

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 11:31 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
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> Jul 13, 2021, 18:05 by baloo at ursamundi.org:
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> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 11:55 PM Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Whether there are separate lanes for pedestrians and bicycles should be tagged with the segregated key or the lanes scheme.
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> Wish we could get on board with "bicycle lanes always count" instead
> of this impossible to validate "sometimes yes, sometimes no" thing
> people afraid of change keep pushing.
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> No, we are not going to redefine tag so heavily used.
> No idea why you push that redefinition idea into every
> thread mentioning lanes, no matter how unrelated.

Because it is causing problems.  You either get bad lane tagging or
impossible to mechanically validate.  A bad scheme is a bad scheme,
regardless of how heavily it's used, and really should be fixed.  This
same foot dragging is what's kept road relations tagged on ways in
addition to relations since the concept of relations was introduced
over a whole decade ago.

Sometimes you just gotta make the hard change and rip the band aid off.