[OSM-talk-be] addr:street on way

[Marc Gemis]

On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Jakka <vdmfrankvdm at gmail.com> wrote:

> highway=footway
> access=no
> bicycle=yes
>

Jakka,

this actually means that only cyclists are allowed.

as Andre pointed out   (by linking to the Belgian rules) highway=footway
means a "road" with vehicle=no,foot=yes. Thus something where only
pedestrians are allowed.

By then explicitly marking it as access=no, you remove all access rights
(also those for pedestrians). And  you only turn access on for cyclists by
adding bicycle=yes.

With respect to "except that bicycle=yes is meaningless if there's no other
tag
forbidding bikes such as access=no."   The "access=no" for cyclists is part
of highway=footway, so you do not have to tag that explicitly.

So yes, in the case of  highway=cycleway,bicycle=yes   the latter is
meaningless. Why ? Well highway=cycleway means foot=yes,bicycle=yes; so
there is no tag forbidding cyclist.
Please note that in some countries (e.g. Germany) highway=cycleway means
bicycle=yes, foot=no !

To summarise: there is no need to explicitly tag what is implicitly stated
by the type of highway. For that see
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions#Belgium
Only tag exceptions to those rules

nothing fuzzy about that.

regards & happy mapping

m
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