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

[James Livingston]

On 13/12/2009, at 8:37 AM, Roy Wallace wrote:
> 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).

This is pretty much what I've been doing - if there is something to indicate that bicycles are allowed I mark it cycleway, if not I mark it footway.

Of course, we're getting into the path tagging debate that is going on on the tagging list for about the millionth time :)