[Tagging] discrepancy between wiki page "Bicycle" and wiki page "key:cycleway:lane"

stevea steveaOSM at softworkers.com
Wed May 11 20:41:27 UTC 2022


In my experience of such things (and I am a man who is definitely getting older — Volker can vouch for that!) I think that in our wiki it is best as there remains a "global Bicycle" page and that also there be additional "country-specific Bicycle" pages.

This approach seems to work well for rail/passenger trains, road routes and so on.  Even better, it allows the wiki to offer a "single point of entry" page on a broad topic (Bicycle, Rail, Hiking...) while also allowing that "top-level" page to point to any country-specific pages where relatively minor anomalies like these can be documented for specific use cases.  After a decade-plus of both wiki usage and wiki authorship on my part, I also believe our wiki audience (in a worldwide sense) has somewhat come to expect this sort of structure.  Plus — it works!  (And that's always a bonus).

> On May 11, 2022, at 1:03 PM, Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Martin, 
> you are right - my statements are not precise. I am referring to the English-langage version of the "Bicycle" page, not the entire wiki. 
> For me that page should cover directly or list pointers to, all aspect of bicycle-related tagging.



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