[talk-au] [Tagging] Tagging highway=cycleway without explicit knowledge of the law?

[Roy Wallace]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
>
> so i filled the Australian guidelines page with definitions from the road
> rules
> hope no one gets offended!

Nice work. I'm adding talk-au to this discussion. Liz has updated:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Urban_Footpaths_and_Cycleways

One question, though, for "Australian shared path", shouldn't this be:

highway=cycleway, bicycle=designated, foot=designated

rather than

highway=footway, foot=yes, bicycle=yes

?

Footway means "mainly/exclusively for pedestrians" and cycleway means
"mainly/exclusively for bicycles" - but I've noticed a tendency to use
cycleway rather than footway wherever bicycle=designated. Also, IMHO
"designated" is a better choice than "yes" (the Aus road rules even
use the word "designated" in this case).