[OSM-talk] highway=cycle&footway

[Richard Mann]

I thought a quick tagwatch of "footway/path/bridleway/cycleway" might be
pertinent.

Europe: footway 556k - cycleway 166k - path 66k - bridleway 11k
Germany: footway 268k - cycleway 57k - path 45k - bridleway 1k
Netherlands: footway 19k - cycleway 38k - path 1k - bridleway 0k
 Great Britain: footway 116k - cycleway 14k - path 2k - bridleway 8k

The Dutch aren't using "path" at all, and the British not much.
Unfortunately tagwatch doesn't seem to cover Wisconsin. Only the British use
"bridleway". The Dutch have markedly few footways (which probably indicates
"cycleway" is being used quite loosely).

I have a hunch the German use of "path" is for non-obligatory (ie not fully
signed) cycle tracks, since the tagging of these is a particular problem in
Germany, but that's just a hunch (please advise anybody).

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Why do I privilege cycleway over bridleway, given a conflict - see tagwatch.
Bridleway is just an interesting GB historical accident.

Why do I think highway=bridleway+surface=something is inadequate to tag
Willow Walk - because there are 16 cited values for surface (and you'd have
to look at tracktype & smoothness too). Whereas
highway=cycleway+designation=public_bridleway does the job with the minimum
of fuss.

Richard (West Oxford)
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