On 28/02/2011 12:04, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:26:39AM +0000, Dave F. wrote:
Could you expand on what you mean by footway? I mean the same as highway=footway, or {add access = no; add foot = yes} [0x16 road_class=0 road_speed=0 resolution 23]
My reasoning was that sports tracks may or may not be closed from the general public. When not in use, they could be used as shortcuts by pedestrians, but not necessarily for other means of transportation.
But that would mean *all* linear leisure=tracks are rendered as footpaths. This is clearly incorrect. You should make use of the access tag to clarify public access A sports track (such as a running track) is still a sports track when not in use & should be rendered as so. If there is a defined public way that is occasionally used as a sports track (mountain bike track, for example) then that track could be put into a route relation.
The wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dtrack says that leisure=track is to be used on nodes and ways. This hints that you should add area=yes when you mean an area.
The majority of the wiki was written a while ago before relations were widely used. They are also written as a guide & not set in concrete. Multi polygon relations make the area tag redundant.
When it comes to sport=cycling, I guess that we could add bicycle=yes, but are there really so many cycling tracks in the OSM data? Wouldn't it be simpler to add the bicycle=yes to the source data, to those tracks that are available for the general public outside sports events?
Again, the access tag should be implemented. Dave F.