[talk-au] Railtrails

[jhen at talk21.com]

Noted.

As far as I'm aware, all railtrails are designed predominantly for bicycle use.  This is a reflection of both the distances usually involved and the users they attract.  I do see the occasional walker on a railtrail, and these, horse riders and wheelchair users are also encouraged to use them.

Another advantage of highway=cycleway is that this causes the cycleway to be immediately obvious to those likely to use the facility (cyclists).  Not only do they appear distinctively blue on the main osm.org map, but they show on the specific Garmin cycle maps available at http://www.osmaustralia.org/garmincycle.php

John

--- On Wed, 5/8/09, Evan Sebire <evan at sebire.org> wrote:
I would have thought that the tag highway=path would be more appropriate.
After that follow what is in the wiki guidelines.  I don't think we should 
necessarily appeal to the majority/minority on a particular path, but describe 
its properties.
I was labelling many hiking paths as footway but have now seen it is better to 
use path and add properties such as horse, bicycle and sac_scale. 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:sac_scale 



      
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