[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

[Roy Wallace]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Norbert
Hoffmann<nhoffmann at spamfence.net> wrote:
>
> I say: forget all defaults and store all those values in the database.
> Those only partly documented "defaults" are the cause of the discussed
> problems.

+1. Everyone seems to agree that the current use of cycleway/footway
implies various things in various circumstances ("defaults" is an
overly nice way of putting it), and these implications need to be made
explicit.

Should they be documented per country on the wiki, or embedded in the
data? In the data, of course!