[talk-au] Cycleway/footway/path

[Ben Kelley]

Hi.

In NSW a "shared path" means foot=yes, bicycle=yes. The default in NSW for
highway=footway (or highway=path) is bicycle=no (same as the OSM
conventions).

 - Ben.

2009/8/10 Evan Sebire <evan at sebire.org>

>
> On Monday 10 Aug 2009 02:01:25 John Smith wrote:
> > --- 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 :)
> >
> And the important one, path=shared.   Not to use the highway tag would make
> it
> easier for new comers.  But then the mapper has to decided is it suitable
> for
> cycling from the start. Whereas highway=path may be easiest during the
> first
> survey.
> Yesterday I forgot my log book and in the evening I was trying to workout
> what
> was track or path and suitable for bicycles.
>
> Evan
>
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