[OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] "Unsurfaced road" and "Byway"?

[Andy Allan]

On Dec 18, 2007 1:06 PM, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping at web.de> wrote:

> Maybe a proposal done at the beginning of the cycle related tagging
> would have end up with a much wider acceptance of the currently very UK
> specific tags

Oh shut up, seriously. I don't appreciate FUD.

How on earth is the tagging UK specific?
National Cycle Network
Regional Cycle Network
Local Cycle Network

I carefully made sure that every tag I added was completely generic.
They are so generic the problem is people trying to work out how they
apply to the UK (i.e. what consitutes a "UK regional network"). And
funnily enough, it's used around the world in different countries and
nobody who is actually using them has said they are UK centric.

The reason it's taken off in the UK so much is that we have a few
extremely dedicated cycle route mappers who have done the vast
majority of the routes. Just read the user diaries to see some of them
in action. If there's nobody in a given country interested in doing
the mapping, voting on the tags is hardly going to make them appear.

Don't use the cycle tagging as a strawman argument to "prove" that
voting is the only way things can work. Argue your case on its merits.

Andy