On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 09:48:57AM +0200, Gerd Petermann wrote:
I've just noticed that the default style treats a way with highway=footway and bicycle=yes as a bicycle-only way, e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/8564649
I think that is not intended. Reason is this rule: # Convert generic path to most specific highway=footway & snowplowing!=no & (bicycle=yes|bicycle=designated|bicycle=permissive|bicycle=official) {set highway=cycleway; set bicycle=yes}
which changes a highway=footway to a highway=cycleway.
In the german wiki the tag highway=footway means something like "pedestrian only".
I'd like to change that rule to highway=footway & snowplowing!=no & (bicycle=designated|bicycle=permissive|bicycle=official) {set highway=cycleway; set bicycle=yes; set foot=yes}
OK?
Yes, looks OK. I think I am the culprit for this breakage. The reason for my thinking mistake is because there are very few highway=cycleway without foot=yes in my area. It is like "Rad weg" in German: a ghetto for human-powered traffic, to keep the "real" roads free for cars. highway=footway means pedestrian-only, so adding bicycle=yes may seem a bit controversial. Maybe some mappers apply common sense (like in your example), or maybe adding bicycle=yes makes sense for a short way that marks a highway=crossing across a bigger road. Here we have such crossings, which are connecting tertiary roads to highway=cycleway running in parallel. They are legally footways, if you are not allowed to ride the bike when crossing the street. If you are using such a way to go from the tertiary road to the cycleway, for routing it would make very much sense to allow that short way for bicycles. Marko