[OSM-talk] [tagging] Approved: path, designated. Rejected: *way deprecation

[Karl Eichwalder]

Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\) schrieb:
> Frederik Ramm wrote:

>>I should expect any good bike routing algorithm to consider footways
>>as well, with speed suitable for walking. I'm not aware of any footway
>>were you are not allowed to push your bike.

Just start cycling next weekend, 50km and more.  Watch the pedestrians
and hikers if you misuse "their" ways.  Also downhill push your bike
"with speed suitable for walking"--that's surely no fun...

>>Thus I would simply tag a
>>cycleway where you have to dismount as a footway - I don't see a
>>practical difference.

> A point of note though that in the UK you are generally not allowed to
> cycle
> on footpaths and indeed in most urban areas there are no-cycling signs on
> many of them to stop you doing so. I personally don't agree with the
> policy but we have had it for a long time and is the norm here, not easy
> therefore to overturn without an Act of Parliament presumably.

It's the same in Germany.  Often, nobody cares, but in summertime
they often try to educate "cycling rowdies" and punish them.
Sometimes they are right, often they are not...

-- 
Karl Eichwalder