[Talk-us] Request for community mediation

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> What if the law is implicit?  Is there consensus whether or not to tag
> implicit laws?

Yes, we tag implicit speed limits (along with a source:maxspeed or whatever).

> But there is a dispute between Nathan and Paul as to whether or not
> such a law applies in certain specific situations.  (How close must
> the cycleway be?)  I believe in this case that Nathan is probably
> correct, but none of us are lawyers, and it's hard to say
> definitively.

This is why I asked Portland's Bicycle Transportation Alliance, which
agreed that there is no requirement to use a bike route rather than a
parallel street.