[Talk-ca] Rendering rules and tagging paths and hard shoulders for cycles

I realise there is some differences of opinion on this but I'm looking for guidance. Locally we seem to have a number of these tagged in different ways. CANVEC appears to tag some of them as highway=footway wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Paths seems to have a wide range of acceptable options,

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Re: CanVec import troubles

Sam: I'll take one of the water relations as an example. What you would do is: delete the tagless ways that are currently in OSM and would be linked by that relation (the ones you had uploaded a week or two ago). This includes deleting the outer way (the way that represents the outline of the

Re: [Talk-ca] Rendering rules and tagging paths and hard shoulders for cycles

Haven't done much bicycle tagging myself. Have you tried tagg...@openstreetmap.org? I would highly recommend including pictures from flickr etc, since different people have different ideas about what a cycle lane is (especially people from different countries). Here in Chilliwack a cycle path is

Re: [Talk-ca] Rendering rules and tagging paths and hard shoulders for cycles

I was thinking more of some one using the data that what the cycle lanes looked like hence the hard shoulder question and I'm only interested in Canadian suggestions, to be honest and parochial I'm just interested in Ottawa. However having said that in order to make the data useful it would be