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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 28.11.2021 um 17:38 schrieb Peter
Neale via Tagging:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Where I live, the local
Council has designated a number of cycle (and walking)
routes as "Super routes". These generally run roughly
parallel to main roads and run roughly North - South (Super
Routes V2, V4, V6 etc) , or roughly East - West (Super
Routes H2, H4, H6 etc). These form a "network" ( a roughly
rectangular grid) of routes and IMHO are more suitable for
commuting to work, shopping,or generally "getting somewhere"
than for tourism. There is one relation per route, which is
tagged as "lcn=yes"</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Other (non-Super) cycleways
are simply tagged as "highway=cycleway" and I see no need to
tag them, or collect them into a huge relation, as some sort
of "basic network".</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">There again, perhaps I
still don't understand what the "basic network" is supposed
to be....</div>
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It sounds like these Super Route signs mark an officially
recommended cycle network. However, they have a defined beginning
and end, have names and can therefore be distinguished from one
another. This is different from, for example, the German bicycle
network or the Swiss hiking trail network. There is simply a network
of connections with appropriate signposting, but without a name and
a defined beginning and end. Routes of a tourist nature or also for
everyday cycling may then run over it.<br>
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For us, cycleways are mostly paths parallel to roads so that
cyclists can get off the road. These can be part of the network with
signposts, but can also be individual islands without a network
connection.
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