[OSM-talk] Path vs footway vs cycleway vs...

[Roy Wallace]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If a German cycleway is *different*
>> in some important way to a UK (or whatever) cycleway, it should
>> ultimately be tagged *differently*. I find this obvious.
>
> what's the difference? Minimum width differs 5 cm? Kind of sign? Forbidden
> to pedestrians? Obligatory for bicycles? Forbidden to 25ccm? Blue lines
> instead of white ones? If every smallest difference will cause another
> top-tag, we'll get thousands of them.

If you're indicating something that might be useful for someone (e.g.
foot=yes/no), then yes, it should ultimately be recorded. Eventually.
And yes, eventually, I would expect OSM will have more tags than it
does now, as the scope of the project expands (note this doesn't mean
it has to expand illogically, or without structure).