[OSM-talk] Country-specific defaults/values (was: Re: Proliferation of path vs. footway)

[Roy Wallace]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Tobias Knerr<osm at tobias-knerr.de> wrote:
> David Earl wrote:
>
> If "cycleway" does mean something different in Germany than it means in
> UK, why do we try to use the same tag/value in the first place? Why
> don't we use, e.g., "Radweg" for Germany? (Or differentiate with
> prefixes or something like that where different nations use the same
> language?)

"Differentiate with prefixes"? Messy... If "cycleway" means "A" in
Germany and "B" somewhere else, then cycleway is not a good tag.
Instead, we should explicitly tag "A" where it applies and tag "B"
where it applies.