[talk-au] Cycleway/footway/path

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Tue Aug 11 00:35:32 BST 2009


On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Stephen Hope wrote:
> Umm, not the case at all. Highway= comes from the old english use,
> where highway means "way/path/track you use to get somewhere". 

highways are in contrast to byways
where the highway is the main road
but discussing the etymology isn't going to help OSM sort out why and how to 
tag


> These
> days we assume roads and cars, but that's not the way it was
> originally designed.
>
> Stephen
>
> 2009/8/10 John Smith <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com>:
> > 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.

subdividing non-car ways off from highway would help routing software.
My Garmin thing wanted me to use a walking / cycle track alongside Lake Burley 
Griffin once

I'd find it useful to change from highway=* with access rights marked
if it was to improve routing
but the current argument is like an argument for the sake of one





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