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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Oct 18, 2020, 10:17 by dieterdreist@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>sent from a phone<br></div><blockquote><div>On 16. Oct 2020, at 09:32, Richard Fairhurst <richard@systemed.net> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div>generally bicycle=dismount should be used instead, reserving bicycle=no for those circumstances where even pushing a bike is not legal (e.g. most public footpaths in England & Wales).<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>most bicycle=no tags out there actually mean that you cannot ride a bike, not that you cannot have a bike in your pocket or be pushing a bike or carrying a bike in a box or on your shoulders.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I would suggest a different tag than bicycle=no for places where you cannot bring a bicycle, because otherwise you will never know which interpretation of bicycle=no was used by the mapper.<br></div></blockquote><div>+1<br></div><div><br></div><div>At this point bicycle=no means "no cycling allowed" and trying to change meaning<br></div><div>would be quite hopeless.<br></div><div><br></div><div>You would need a special tag to mark which interpretation is used and resurvey all<br></div><div>bicycle=no cases. And at that point it is easier to have a new tag for rare "no bicycle at all<br></div><div>in addition to forbidding cycling"<br></div><div><br></div><div>At that point it is easier to simply invent a new tag for "no bicycle pushing".<br></div><div><br></div><div>(bicycle_pushed=no, bicycle_pushing=no and bicycle_possession=no were proposed)</div><div><br></div><div> And I think at every point in OSM history, as bicycle=dismount was a duplicate of bicycle=no<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>The wiki is unsure about the exact meaning, the bicycle=* page says it is about restrictions for bicycles while the access page (older) says it is about restrictions for cyclists. IMHO the most common interpretation is legality of cycling/riding a bicycle.<br></div></blockquote><div>""<br></div><div><br></div> </body>
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