[OSM-talk] Cycleway

[Frédéric Bonifas]

2006/7/21, Nick Whitelegg <nick at hogweed.org>:
> On Thursday 20 Jul 2006 22:16, Frédéric Bonifas wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > By speaking with Etienne I realized that I didn't present the cycleway
> > key I added to Map features on the wiki.
> > I think that the present highway="cycleway" has two disadvantages :
> > * How to differenciate the differents sorts of cycleways ?
> > * For a same way, we can't use 2 highway keys, for example
> > highway="secondary" and highway="cycleway".
> >
>
> Presumably you'd keep the 'highway=cycleway' though (in addition), as every
> other type of route, from motorways down to small paths, has something in the
> 'highway' tag?
>
> Nick

But the other types of roads don't share the same ways. For example
you won't have for a same way a motorway and a secondary road.
The cycleways are really specific, because they can be alone or they
can share a way.

Why not a key for each type of use ? I mean highway="..." for the
roads, cycleway="..." for the cycleways,
footway="footpath","trail","..."

Fred