<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would like to start a discussion on how we should deal with sidewalks tagged separately, like it is is done in downtown Ottawa and like we are starting to do in the Montreal region.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The issue is that by default highway=footway with or without footway=sidewalk should have an implicit bicycle=no by default according to this page: <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access_restrictions" class="">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access_restrictions</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, some osm users told me I should tag them with bicycle=no everywhere because routing engines use sidewalks for bicycle routing which is illegal in most part of Canada.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What are your thoughts on this ? Should we adapt to routing engines or should routing engines fix the issue themselves?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>