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

[Steve Bennett]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Jonathan Bennett <
openstreetmap at jonno.cix.co.uk> wrote:

> Steve Bennett wrote:
>
> > [...] I tend to
> > believe I can ride my bike wherever the hell I want unless there's a
> > sign saying otherwise.
>
> That's fine for your personal decision making. However, for OSM we need
> to provide people with as much information as possible so they can make
> their own, possibly different, decisions.
>

In case it wasn't clear, I was using the above statement to explain my
difficult in judging accurately where bikes are actually "allowed" to go.
There aren't many signs. Real observation-based tagging (surface,
smoothness, width etc...) seems like less shakey ground.


> If you don't *know* the legal situation this gets tricky, but that's
> something we can clear up within each country eventually.
>
>
Ok.

Steve
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