[OSM-talk] cycle/footpath

[Robin Paulson]

while we're on the subject of convoluted tagging schemes for highways,
i've always been intrigued by the following combinations, which seem
to mean the same thing, but are clearly different:

highway=footway
cycle=yes

highway=cycleway
foot=yes

is there any difference between these two?

is this another argument for splitting the physical attributes from
other attributes to stop this kind of redundancy?