[talk-au] Tagging bicycle on footpath laws Was: Re: HighRouleur edits

[Andy Townsend]

On 08/04/2022 06:31, Andrew Harvey wrote:
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> On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 at 14:53, Graeme Fitzpatrick 
> <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>     On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 at 12:50, Andrew Harvey
>     <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>         I think this is getting too much into mapping regulations, we
>         could just have no bicycle tag and leave it to data consumers
>         to apply the regional defaults.
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>     What would that do to bike routing?
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> Well your router would need to look up the specific default whether 
> that's something in the routing engine configuration, pulled from the 
> OSM wiki, or pulled from the Victoria state relation def:* tags.
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Which, practically speaking, will never happen.

In OSM terms, that's very much "on display in the bottom of a locked 
filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door 
saying 'Beware of The Leopard'"**

Best Regards,

Andy

** Douglas Adams, of course.

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