[OSM-talk] tagging Greenways

[Jean-Marc Liotier]

Greg Troxel wrote:
> Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> writes:
> 
>> Sam Vekemans wrote:
>>
>>> Where the only way i know to map it is to use a relation and call it
>>> "route=greenway" and dont have it render on the cyclemap.   Just map the
>>> sections as appropriate.
>> Greenway is the US/Canadianism for "cycleway."
> 
> I don't follow this.  I think that in the US a cycleway would be called
> either a "bike path" or "rail trail", depending on origin.

In France, we have "voie verte" which is the litteral translation of
"greenway". It is usually a major dedicated cycleway - sometimes on the
former path of a disused and removed railroad track.