<div dir="ltr"><div>We do not need a new highway tag value "singletrack".<br></div><div>I independently read the Wikipedia article, and had come to the conclusion that a singletrack is clearly</div><div>highway=path; surface=unpaved; width=*; mtb:scale=*; mtb:scale:uphill=*; mtb:scale:downhill=* and any other tag form the wiki page <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mountain_biking" target="_blank">Mountain biking</a><br>It does not need foot=yes and bicycle=yes, as this is implicit. <br></div><div>A highway=path is, according the wiki, a "singletrack" ("If a path is wide enough for 4-wheel-vehicles (wider than 2 m), and it
is not legally signposted or otherwise only allowed for pedestrians,
cyclists or horseriders, it is often better tagged as a <tt dir="ltr" class="gmail-mw-content-ltr" style="background:rgb(238,238,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway" title="Key:highway">highway</a>=<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtrack" title="Tag:highway=track">track</a></tt> or <tt dir="ltr" class="gmail-mw-content-ltr" style="background:rgb(238,238,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway" title="Key:highway">highway</a>=<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dservice" title="Tag:highway=service">service</a></tt>")</div><div>It is not different from any mountain trail here. There is no preference for MTBs according Wikipedia. It is shared with hikers.</div><div>And the doubletrack shown on the same page is identical with any run-of-the-mill forest road here in Europe, which we usually tag as highway=track. And unfortunately I would call this specific one a single-track forest road. :-(<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 16:56, Jonathon Rossi <<a href="mailto:jono@jonorossi.com" target="_blank">jono@jonorossi.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I think using highway=singletrack could be a good complement to highway=track, then we can use standard access (default foot=yes, horse=no, bicycle=yes, motorcycle=no) and surface tagging like we do for highway=track. highway=path can continue to be the catch all for "a non-specific path".</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd also use [highway=singletrack bicycle=no] to "fix" tagging currently using highway=path for specific singletrack in protected national parks where MTBs are not permitted, where foot=yes is the only allowed access. This compliments [highway=track bicycle=no] in the same parks where only rangers are allowed to use the fire roads.</div></div></div>
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