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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/11/2021 08:44, Volker Schmidt
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              <div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 3:53 AM Peter
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                      <div>5. icn, ncn, rcn and lcn are used for
                        recreational routes.</div>
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                <div>Says who? </div>
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            <div dir="auto">Brian, </div>
            <div dir="auto">I stated earlier that this is an "in
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    The abbreviations roughly represent their length & location. It
    doesn't indicate a route relations usage at all <br>
    Could you name some routers using this "principle"?<br>
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                <div> lcn is a "local cycling network", it says
                  absolutely nothing about the purpose for which people
                  might use the cycleway.  There is nothing in the
                  English or German wiki pages that I can find that
                  backs up this assertion.  I maintain that lcn etc are
                  perfectly fine tagging for either recreational or
                  commuter usage, and I find the distinction you're
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                <div>We don't tag roads this way, so I don't see why
                  we'd tag cycleways this way.</div>
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          <div>You may have overlooked my earlier comment on this
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          <div>The routes for motorised traffic are different and
            lacking exactly the possibility of distinguishing between
            what you call "commuter" traffic and tourism routes.</div>
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    Exactly the same for cycling routes. It's the bicycle rider who
    decides if their using them for commuting or recreation. <br>
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          <div> We use road route relations for the various hierarchical
            road levels, e. g. "Route Nationale xx" (in France) but have
            no established tagging for the signposted touristic route
            "Route du Vin d'Alsace", which are an orthogonal category of
            road routes.<br>
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          <div>The fact that something is missing in OSM for motorized
            traffic is not a good argument for not having it for bicycle
            tourism, <br>
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    Something can't be missing if it is not required.<br>
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            especially as it is de-facto practice in many parts of the
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    Please show me a cycle route that declares itself 'only for
    commuting, recreational cyclists are banned', or vice versa.  <br>
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          <div>And as a frequent end user of this feature I can confirm
            that it works.<br>
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    Please provide a "working" example.<br>
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