[talk-au] Cycleway/footway/path

[John Smith]

--- On Mon, 10/8/09, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> then we have the same problem as the Germans
> where path is path for feet
> cycleway is path for bicycles
> and you cannot assume that it is shared at all

and you cannot assume it isn't shared either, people may not tag all uses because they think it is implied :)


> someone then decides to make path
> as in highway=path
> and a duplicate set of tags are made up
> which cover walking cycling 

If the idea was to split cycleway/footway from highway why did they replace it with yet another highway tag? Seems strange/silly to me.
 
> both ways are well documented

And people abused the system to get their views forced upon us all.