[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

[James Livingston]

On 12/08/2009, at 3:51 PM, Nop wrote:
> There is no consent on which way to go to express the strict use case.

I think the only two solutions are to either have this be country- 
specific (at which point routers/renderers have to start knowing these  
kinds of things), or we have highway=cycleway not imply any value for  
foot at all.

Going the other way and not having highway=footway imply any value for  
bicycle would mean that people like me could tag something as a  
footway and say that I don't know whether it's suitable for cycling on  
by leaving the bicycle= out.