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

[Anthony]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Even if it's not "on the ground"?

Seems easier for the mappers/routers to go through a preprocessing
stage where they rename all cycleways in Germany from
"highway=cycleway" to "highway=german_cycleway", than to expect
mappers to redundantly tag like that.  Kind of like the whole is_in
fiasco.