[OSM-talk] Highways with highway=steps

[David Earl]

On 28/09/2007 14:49, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On 9/28/07, Adam Killian <vitki at bonius.com> wrote:
>> We have official bicycle routes in Pennsylvania that I have been wanting
>> to tag. (http://www.dot.state.pa.us/BIKE/WEB/tour_routes.htm)
>> I was thinking of using the "ncn_route" tags.  I don't see how this is
>> any worse than using "motorway" when I mean "interstate highway" etc.
> 
> How many cycling networks are we talking about? If it's just one,
> sure, go ahead. However, here we have:
> - European cycling routes (http://www.ecf.com/14_1)
> - ANWB cycling routes
> - These routes: http://www.fietsen.123.nl/fietsroutes%20elders.htm
> - or http://www.fietspad.nl/
> - Perhaps the cyclist unions list:
> http://www.fietsersbond.nl/urlsearchresults.asp?itemnumber=772
> 
> Which of these gets the distinction of being the "National Cycling
> Network" ? And how do we label the rest?

While the 'kind of route; issue is slightly independent, one of the 
stumbling blocks in representing routes of any kind is the massive 
deficiency in applying routes to roads, especially when ther eis more 
than one kind of route on the same road.

Relations will give a workable solution to this very shortly. So I think 
it would be highly desirable to work up a solution in terms of 
relations, and forget trying to squeeze it onto ways.

For example, we might have a relation
   route=cycle
   network=uk:ncn
   ref=NCN11
and link this to the constituent ways

We might also have
   route=bus
   ref=32
   operator=Stagecoach Cambridge
which might share some of the same ways.


David