Re: [talk-au] Australian Cycleways

2009-12-13 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Liz wrote: we're having another discussion about this same point concurrently on t...@openstreetmap.org and making a number of suggestions there care to join in? bum steer tagg...@openstreetmap.org And can I

Re: [talk-au] Australian Cycleways

2009-12-13 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: And can I again please direct you to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Consolidation_footway_cycleway_path If you want to find a resolution to the footway/cycleway/path thing, please contribute your thoughts there.

Re: [talk-au] Australian Cycleways

2009-12-13 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: And can I again please direct you to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Consolidation_footway_cycleway_path If you want to find a resolution to the footway/cycleway/path

Re: [talk-au] Australian Cycleways

2009-12-13 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:40 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: This is where meta information stored in state/country boundaries could be useful, although that in itself could be a slippery slope of storing too much data in meta lookup tables essentially... Yeah. I don't think

Re: [talk-au] Australian Cycleways

2009-12-13 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Yeah. I don't think the slope is all that slippery. Lots of stuff is What I meant is, storing this type of information in meta data could end up being a dumping ground for a lot of things beyond simple differences between whatever is considered the

[talk-au] Australian Cycleways

2009-12-12 Thread Liz
I've just put a lot of definitions on the wiki stolen from (and attributed to) the Australian Road Rules concerning the various types of footpaths and bicycle paths and lanes We have Shared Path to be tagged 'footway' with bicycle=yes I'd like to suggest that a shared path has been designed for

Re: [talk-au] Australian Cycleways

2009-12-12 Thread Liz
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Evan Sebire wrote: Why are we still using cycleway/footway, please describe only the properties of the path. If the routing/rendering software is dumb/simple that doesn't mean we must be! The tags for describing paths properties are fairly stable and that is what the

Re: [talk-au] Australian Cycleways

2009-12-12 Thread John Henderson
Liz wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, John Henderson wrote: without changing any of the track/cycleway/path stuff mark a shared path as highway=cycleway because then they are visible as cycleways to the renderer and to the router. the presence of a painted line down the middle of the track is the