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

[Roy Wallace]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Does it matter?? How hard is it to tag cycleways and bridleways with
>> foot=yes/no??
>>
>> I would have no problem with that, if it helped give us consistency.
>
> From a purely pragmatic perspective, the more repetitive tasks you assign to
> people, the less likely it is that those tasks will be performed
> consistently. I'm not convinced that telling people how to perform a task,
> and getting them to do it 10,000 times will lead to 10,000 correctly
> performed tasks.

Good point, but I think it's ok to first work out how we *should* be
tagging, before we assume that people will stuff it up.