Request for Comments: Solution proposal for the `path` issues

[Minh_Nguyen (Minh Nguyễn)]

@julcnx

I was also surprised to see that the iD preset for shared-use “Cycle and Foot Path” already uses highway=cycleway + bicycle=designated + foot=designated, which shows things are already moving in that direction:

This preset has been around for years, but more recently it has been suppressed in favor of a highway=path–based preset in a few European countries:

Apply different tagging validation per country in iD

Nice, in Germany highway=cycleway foot=designated is simply wrong. Adding only bicycle=designated is not fixing the problem but either foot=designated is wrong or it should be highway=path bicycle=designated foot=designated.

The voices clamoring for those regional overrides were expressing a desire to align with long-held regional tagging conventions, which are being called into question here.