[talk-au] Path discussion tagging guidelines

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The only other difference was a general ambivalence on how shared paths are tagged. The wiki says highway=cycleway & foot=designated, people here were also happy with highway=footway & bicycle=designated. Two sides of the same coin I guess, and depends on which camp you're in. 😊

 

Personally, I use both of these for shared paths depending if I consider them more or less suitable for cycling (primarily based on width).

highway=cycleway
foot=designated
segregated=no

 

and

 

highway=footway
bicycle=designated
segregated=no

 

both adequately describe a shared path IMO, but I would expect a “cycleway” to be wider and generally more suitable for cycling than a footway. They do render differently, and I would expect a bicycle router to give shared path cycleways some preference over shared path footways.

 

From: Adam Horan <ahoran at gmail.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, 13 October 2021 17:05
To: Brendan Barnes <brenbarnes at gmail.com>
Cc: talk-au <talk-au at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Path discussion tagging guidelines

 

I'd say it does, except I think there was a desire not to universally tag bicycle=yes/no on footway, given it's broadly redundant information. This should be derived from tags applied at a State level.

But retaining bicycle=no if there was an explicit sign forbidding cycling.

 

The only other difference was a general ambivalence on how shared paths are tagged. The wiki says highway=cycleway & foot=designated, people here were also happy with highway=footway & bicycle=designated. Two sides of the same coin I guess, and depends on which camp you're in. 😊

 

Adam

 

On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 at 17:49, Brendan Barnes <brenbarnes at gmail.com <mailto:brenbarnes at gmail.com> > wrote:

Hi all,

 

There's been great discussion over the past few weeks about cycling and/or footpath tagging. Personally, it's been hard to keep up with all the messages.

 

Does the tagging guidelines wiki reflect a summary of what has recently been discussed?

 

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Urban_Footpaths_and_Cycleways

 

Thanks.

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