[OSM-talk] Non-designated cycleway vs. designation info missing

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Fri Aug 14 12:53:31 BST 2009


2009/8/14 Mike Harris <mikh43 at googlemail.com>:
> The problem is that some of us follow the wiki advice re designated= which
> was developed after a lot of discussion in this group!
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:access%3Ddesignated
>
> If it ain't
> broke don't fix it?


IMHO it IS BROKEN. The cited page has contradictions on it. E.g. it
defines "To indicate an exclusive access use access=official" and then
suggests to tag bicycle=official AND foot=official to the same way
(combined). This is not what I understand from "exclusive".

Another example:
a cycleway (dedicated) could according to this page be tagged:
bicycle=designated and foot=yes/no depending on country and horse=no
why is horse not depending on country?
why does "official" not need specification depending on country
(according to the page)?

There is more like this on the page, and there is other pages that
probably suggest different tagging, so there is a problem that IMHO
should be solved by unifying and a general proposal, whether we should
tag legal implications explicitly or handle them country specifically
(and probably document the implications countrywise in the wiki).

cheers,
Martin




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