[OSM-talk-be] Fwd: [osmose-backend] Missing Parent Tag for all highways with bicycle = yes (#1)

[Ben Laenen]

On Sunday 24 March 2013 00:45:01 André Pirard Papou wrote:
> On 2013-03-22 21:32, Marc Gemis wrote :
> > This is the reply I got on my "bug report" to osmose.
> > 
> > Do we have to locate those ways with route=bicycle ?
> > 
> > m
> 
> It makes no sense.
> route=bicycle is a tag for a relation, not for a way.
> It's very surprising that Osmose commands to repeat such a tag on ever
> cycling way !!!
> How could we identify a cycling route if all the cycling ways contained
> route=bicycle ????????
> 
> Either Osmose removes that test.
> Or the authors remove that tag (I bcc: one of them).
> Or I can remove 28 of them that I have ready after my selection.


These tags were used on some ways for some routes: if a route goes over a big 
square, an additional way is created going across the square. This way can't 
have a highway=* tag, but it needs some kind of tag so route=bicycle (or 
route=foot) it is, which is a good option to show what it's being used for for 
those people who don't look at relations (and I guess osmose wouldn't like 
untagged ways either)... There's one crossing the Grote Markt in Brussels for 
example, or one over the square under the Atomium.

I guess some of those got some bicycle=yes or foot=yes tags as well which can 
be deleted if that solves the question. But I haven't found any ways with both 
route=bicycle and bicycle=yes though.

In some other places route=bicycle/foot has been used for routes going over a 
grass field or through a forest where no visible path can be seen.

So whatever you do, don't just delete ways with these tags without looking. 
But if anyone has better ways to tag these things...

Ben