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

[Roy Wallace]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> IMHO "Don't piss off the whole world, just piss off one country" is a bad
> solution, if there is no need to piss off anyone at all.

+1

> Yes, but I would like us to define what the different national defaults are,
> so that everyone can work off the same playbook.

I'm not a fan of this solution, because usually I don't think it's
necessary - not in this case, anyway (read on...).

> For example, in Noppia, bikes can do the wrong one down one way streets. One
> way streets are just tagged oneway, nothing special.
> In Stevia, they can't.
>
> We define use cases:
> UC1) Oneway street with bikes allowed in wrong direction
> UC2) Oneway street with bikes not allowed in wrong direction
>
> We have a 2x2 matrix:
>
>                UC1
> UC2
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Noppia: oneway=true                  | oneway=true;bicycle=oneway
> Stevia: oneway=true;bicycle=twoway   | oneway=true
>
> That's the table that needs to go in the wiki so that everyone understands
> how to code the same thing in different countries.
>
> Meanwhile the area for Noppia could be tagged
> "bicycle_rule:wrong_way_in_oneway_permitted" or whatever.

I see your point, but WOW, that seems like a lot of extra STUFF to
maintain - and we don't have a good track record with maintenance (see
the wiki... :P). You don't need it. Use this, which is exactly as
*already documented in the wiki*:

UC1: oneway=yes; cycleway=opposite
UC2: oneway=yes

(see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:oneway and
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cycleway).