[talk-au] Cycleway/footway/path

[John Smith]

--- On Sun, 9/8/09, Ben Kelley <ben.kelley at gmail.com> wrote:

> A normal road:
> bicycle=unspecified or no

As I said, I don't cycle much so I'm just trying to think through the possibilities, if you're looking for a primary purpose maybe that's how to look at this.

To play devils advocate here for a second, should highway=* be used at all, I mean a highway is something cars go on, or something cars used to go on but they turned it into a pedestrian only area, eg Martin Place in Sydney.

So the following both seem illogical to me

highway=cycleway
and
highway=path

Shouldn't it be:

path=cycleway
or
path=footway

etc?

It's a path not a highway, and this way you are still describing the primary purpose and this is suggestion is bound to make everyone equally unhappy :)