On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:06:12 +0200, Nop <ekkeh...@gmx.de> wrote: > I think the main questions are: > > - Can we agree on a common interpretation of what foot/cycleway are > supposed to mean? > - Do we want a general meaning for every country, delegating local > specifics to other tags, or a local meaning dependent on a countries > specific conditions? > > - Can we use the existing access-Tags to describe the exact rules of > traffic e.g. in Germany (which seems to have the highest requirements so > far) and agree on the meaning there, too, or do we need to invent a > whole new scheme for local specifics? > > - Do we tag generic trails as highway=path or does this tag have a more > complex meaning? > > Can we try to discuss the problem at this level before proposing > detailed tagging schemes? > > > There is also the questions which is important but should not be mixed in: > > - how can we get a coherent tagging model for OSM?
+1 to the above. Incidentally, I personally think that Nick Whitelegg's reasoning is sound, and that ideally something like the path proposal *should* replace and deprecate footway, cycleway, etc. But we really need to change the way we develop our tags, so that a more sensible procedure along the lines Nop proposed can actually be implemented. I'm going to start a new thread with a thought on that. Regards, Tom _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
