<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Maybe the issue is that in ID and I assume that is the Canadian default value, the bicycle access tag is left undefined. Why isn’t that tag defaulted to no as it is for cars ? Then an explicit yes tag can be added only to the odd place where cycling on a sidewalk is allowed. We are talking routing engines here, not the kid that plays on the street.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 3, 2020, at 10:46, Nate Wessel <<a href="mailto:bike756@gmail.com" class="">bike756@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><p class="">Which routing engines are causing problems exactly? Routing a
bicycle on a sidewalk may be appropriate/reasonable in some cases
and over short distances where one could be instructed to dismount
and walk. I'd be interested to see some of the problematic routes
that are being suggested to see if there isn't a more elegant way
of resolving this. <br class="">
</p><p class="">I personally only use explicit access tags where there is clear
signage indicating some type of special access restriction.
Otherwise the default should be assumed. Routing engines <i class="">should</i>
be able to accommodate region differences in default values
without needing to manually tag millions of ways. Whether they can
or do allow that is a problem for the people developing the
routing engines. <br class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2020-04-03 10:39 a.m., John Whelan
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I'd recommend bicycle=no and I live in Ottawa. In Ottawa
footpaths that connect in general are bicycle=yes as they come
under municipal regulation but a sidewalk on a highway comes under
provincial legislation which bans bicycles on sidewalks. Sparks
street is fun I think you are not permitted to ride your bicycle
but I'm unsure if this is provincial, municipal or it might even
be NCC which is federal of course.<br class="">
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In the UK they are banned by law but in certain cities the Chief
Constable has stated the law will not be enforced within the
police force boundaries as a letter of interpretation. It might
be nice for Ottawa to do the same sometime but there again we have
City of Ottawa police, OPP, RCMP and of course the PPS.<br class="">
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<span class="">James wrote on 2020-04-03 10:25 AM:</span><br class="">
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<div dir="auto" class="">I don't think it's more tagging for the renderer
as much as it's being more specific(more data) to specify a
abstract view: without knowledge of
Canadian/Provincial/Municipal laws about biking on sidewalks.
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<div dir="auto" class="">I think Montreal and Gatineau are more
enforced as Ottawa it is illegal to bike on the sidewalk,
but people are still doing it, but that's beside the point.</div>
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a.m. Pierre-Léo Bourbonnais via Talk-ca, <<a href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a>>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">Hi!
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<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>
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<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" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access_restrictions</a></div>
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<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>
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<div class="">What are your thoughts on this ? Should we adapt to
routing engines or should routing engines fix the issue
themselves?</div>
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