[OSM-talk] Pedestrians on cycleways

[Philip Homburg]

In your letter dated Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:53:11 +0200 you wrote:
>
>> This seems to reflect the situation in Germany. However, in Belgium and
>> The 
>> Netherlands, the default is that pedestrians are allowed on cycle tracks.
>
>I think that what you need is not a cycleway anymore, because pedestrian are 
>allowed.
>
>Luckyly, the higwhay=path is made for that

By definition, highway=cycleway is equivalent to "highway=path +
bicycle=designated".

So I don't see the point of that remark.

And in some countries pedestrians are allowed on trunk roads as well, so
maybe those should also be tagged as 'highway=path'?