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

[Liz]

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Roy Wallace wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > On Monday 30 November 2009 22:25:36 Roy Wallace wrote:
> >> 1) I can convince you guys that this approach is the best way to get
> >> global consistency, and that that's important;
> >> 2) people realise that editors can be used to avoid additional
> >> keystrokes and so there is actually no cost in adding foot=yes;
> >
> > I've been told that when OSM started (I wasn't involved then) that every
> > motorway had to be tagged horse=no+foot=no+bicycle=no.
> >
> > There is a reason they stopped doing that.
>
> The reason is that that's *globally* redundant.
>

not exactly correct.
We do have highway marked motorway in Au where bicycles are allowed.